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Remembering Marvin Marshak
Professor Marvin Marshak passed away on April 2, 2026 at the age of 80. Marshak was a member of the physics faculty at the University of Minnesota for over fifty years and he made, according to
Solar astrophysics students building instrument that will hitch a ride on NASA balloon
Students in the School of Physics and astronomy, under the supervision of Professor Lindsay Glesener, are building a solar x-ray spectrometer that is planned to fly on a NASA high-altitude balloon
MicroBooNE likely has ruled out possibility of ‘sterile neutrinos’
Professor Andrew Furmanski of the School of Physics and Astronomy is a member of an experimental collaboration which has eliminated the possibility of a theorized possible fourth neutrino flavor, the
Pribiag named Dean's Fellow
Professor Vlad Pribiag of the School of Physics and Astronomy has been named a Dean’s Fellow for the 2026-2027 Academic Year.
Cushman and Liu groups help SuperCDMS to major milestone
School of Physics and Astronomy faculty members Priscilla Cushman and Yan Liu are part of a collaboration that successfully cooled the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment to
Miller and Skinner receive prestigious NASA Future Investigator Fellowships
School of Physics and Astronomy graduate students John Miller Jr and Evan Skinner received highly competitive NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST)