School of Physics and Astronomy
School News
Remembering Ed Tang
1928 -2025
Dr. Edward Yau-Chien Tang, Professor Emeritus of University of Minnesota, passed away peacefully on January 17, 2025, at the age of 96, after a brief fight with pneumonia following
Strobbe wins Borja Award
Assistant Professor Nadja Strobbe of the School of Physics and Astronomy has received the 2025 Guillermo E. Borja award.
Woodward part of team that makes first-ever study of extragalactic recurrent nova
Unprecedented study yields some surprises and the hottest ever recorded temperature for a nova
Hanany Receives Fulbright Award
Professor Shaul Hanany of the School has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award from the U.S. State Department and the Fulbright Foreign Specialist Board.
Puchner and Noireaux labs discover new photochemistry useful for live-cell single-molecule microscopy
Professors Elias Puchner and Vincent Noireaux of the School, along with their research groups, have shown that a popular class of fluorescent dyes changes color under certain conditions, causing
Kao Receives APS Dissertation Award
Dr. Wen-Han Kao, (Ph.D Physics 2024) a former student of Prof. Natalia Perkins, has been named one of only two recipients of the prestigious Dissertation Award from the American Physical Society