News Archive

Roger Stuewer
General

Gift establishes Roger and Helga Stuewer library

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Professor Emeritus Roger Stuewer, historian of physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy and founder of the University’s Program in History of Science and Technology, and his wife Helga, have donated their large and valuable collection of books and papers to the School.

Vlad pribiag
General, Research News

Pribiag leads team that receives $1.4M Keck Foundation grant to study possible breakthrough in quantum computing

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A team led by School of Physics and Astronomy Associate Professor Vlad Pribiag has received an award from the W. M. Keck Foundation to study a new process that could lead to a breakthrough in quantum computing.

Above is an illustration of an intermediate polar system, a type of two-star system that the research team thinks V1674 Hercules belongs to. A flow of gas from the large companion star impacts an accretion disk before flowing along magnetic field lines onto the white dwarf
Research, Research News

Woodward research takes a look at the fastest nova on record

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A research report, co-authored by Professor Charles Woodward of the School of Physics and Astronomy describes the unusual quirks of V1674 Hercules, the fastest nova ever on record.

Rajdeep Chatterjee
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Chatterjee receives Young Researcher Prize

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Rajdeep Mohan Chatterjee received the 2022 Young Researcher Prize from the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland.

Ramanakumar Sankar
Research, Research News

School leads citizen science effort to study Jupiter's atmosphere

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Ramanakumar Sankar, a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Physics and Astronomy is leading the latest Zooniverse project, Jovian Vortex Hunter.

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New grant will expand FTPI programs

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The William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (FTPI) has received a Simons Grant of over half a million dollars to help bolster the Institute's mission of being one of the regional centers for theoretical physics.

Jenna Freedburg
General

Freedberg Receives Student Leadership Award

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Jenna Freedberg, graduate student in the School of Physics and Astronomy, received a 2022 President's Student Leadership and Service Award.

fellowships and awards
General

2022 Graduate Awards and Fellowships

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There are 11 graduate award and fellowship recipients in the School for 2021.

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General

Hanany Receives Collegiate Service Award

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Professor Shaul Hanany of the School of Physics and Astronomy has received the 2022 College of Science and Engineering George W. Taylor Award for Distinguished Service.

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Alumni Class Notes

Hameed receives NSSA Prize

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Sajna Hameed (PhD 2021), now a postdoc at the MPI, Stuttgart, Germany, was recently selected as a recipient of the biennial Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA) Prize for Outstanding Student Research.