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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)
Coughlin part of team that developed alert broker “Babamul” to help parse data from the LSST
Coughlin is part of a collaboration with Caltech to build a broker called Babamul, which can receive alerts from telescope surveys like Rubin Observatory and the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) to
Pribiag part of team tackling confirmation bias in condensed matter physics
Professor Vlad Pribiag, of the School of Physics and Astronomy, was part of a group of condensed matter physicists who recently demonstrated—through four case studies—how over-reliance on single
Coughlin part of team that wins Scialog Award in early LSST research
This Scialog–short for science + dialog– is a “three-year initiative that aims to advance the foundational science needed to realize the full potential of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s upcoming
School welcomes Professor Oskar Vafek
Meet Oskar Vafek, a new Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy's Fine Theoretical Physics Institute.
Janssen wins Abraham Pais Prize
Professor Michel Janssen of the School of Physics and Astronomy and the Program in History of Science, Technology and Medicine has won the American Physical Society (APS) 2026 Abraham Pais Prize for