Special achievements of students:

• Qiyue  Wang  was  awarded  the  first  (2021)  Steven Weinberg  Research  Award  by  the  Texas  Section  of American Physical Society (APS).
  
  
• Peng Peng Zheng (LGBT) obtained her Ph.D. degree.
  
  
• Spenser  Talkington  (REU  student  from  UCLA)  was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
  
  
• Tianyi Xu published his first research paper in Nature.