December 2004

Nick Giordano named Indiana Professor of the Year

Nick Giordano, Distinguished Professor of Physics, has been selected as the 2004 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Indiana Professor of the Year. The Carnegie Foundation's Professors of the Year Award Program recognizes

• extraordinary dedication to undergraduate teaching as evidenced by impact on and involvement with undergraduates,

• contributions to undergraduate education in the institution, community, and profession, and

• support from colleagues and current and former students.

Nick has been teaching in the Department of Physics at Purdue since 1979 and served three years as an Associate Dean of the College of Science.

Nick has received numerous awards for teaching and research, including the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, American Physical Society Fellowship, and the U.S. Department of Energy Computational Science Education Award. From Purdue, he earned both the Charles B. Murphy Award for outstanding teaching and the Herbert Newby McCoy Award, which is presented annually to the faculty member who has made the greatest contribution of the year to science. He also is a Fellow of the Purdue Teaching Academy.

He has an international reputation for his work in the field of mesoscopic physics, a branch of the general field of nanoscience. His research focuses on the properties of metallic nanostructures, the behavior of liquids in nanoscale systems, noise and fluctuations in condensed matter systems, musical acoustics, and the physics of the piano.

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