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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)
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