News Archive
Humphreys named AAS Fellow
Posted July 20, 2021
Professor Roberta Humphreys of the School of Physics and Astronomy has been named a 2021 Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (AAS).
Collaboration uncovers unique properties of a promising new material
Posted July 14, 2021
A collaboration that includes four faculty members of the School of Physics and Astronomy, Vlad Pribiag, Fiona Burnell, Rafael Fernandes, and Ke Wang, has discovered that a unique superconducting material has unforeseen properties when it was studied in a very thin layer. It is not uncommon for materials to behave differently when they are at a very small size, but this material has potentially beneficial properties.
Searching for Stealth SUSY
Posted June 28, 2021
Nadja Strobbe, who joined the School as an assistant professor in 2019, is leading an investigation into what she calls “stealth Supersymmetry (SUSY).” The elusive process of supersymmetry is a theoretical extension of the Standard Model that predicts a partner particle for every particle. These new particles could solve a major problem with the Standard Model – fixing the mass of the Higgs boson. To date, there has been no evidence for supersymmetry, although experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have ruled out some of the simplest models.
2021 Graduate Awards and Fellowships
Posted May 17, 2021
There are 14 graduate award and fellowship recipients in the School for 2021.
2021 Undergraduate Scholarship Recipients
Posted May 11, 2021
There are 29 undergraduate recipients for 13 separate scholarships.
Fernandes Receives Research Award
Posted May 7, 2021
Professor Rafael Fernandes of the School of Physics and Astronomy has received the 2021 George W. Taylor Award for Distinguished Research from the College of Science and Engineering.
Skillman named CSE Distinguished Professor
Posted May 7, 2021
Professor Evan Skillman of the School has been named a College of Science and Engineering Distinguished Professor.
Mu2e an (almost) impossible experiment
Posted April 14, 2021
Physicists at the University of Minnesota are building an experiment that they readily admit is almost impossible.
New Careers Program brings new opportunities for students
Posted April 14, 2021
Professor Shaul Hanany has led a new effort to address the large gap in career opportunities in academia and the number of physics and astronomy graduates in the U.S.
Zhen Liu: Hidden Sector Physics
Posted April 14, 2021
Zhen Liu is a new theoretical high energy physicist at the School, whose research focuses on “hidden sector physics” which seeks to answer fundamental questions in particle physics.