The UW Physics Department awarded its first PhD in 1899. Since then our students have earned degrees in virtually every area of physics, and our faculty have played key roles in a myriad of important research efforts.

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Dr. David Fahey, the receipient of the Honorary Degree from the UW-Madison, 2018, with host Prof. Jim Lawler.
LZ experiment featured in "UW Fueling Discovery"
Prototype camera set for integration into novel gamma-ray telescope
Profs Justin Vandenbroucke and Jay Gallagher receive UW2020 award to develop instrumentation for studying the highest energy photons
Roger Waleffe (leftmost), AMEP major wins Goldwater Scholarship
Juan Bohorquez awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship for Microwave to Optical Qubit Conversion with Single Rydberg Atoms
Personal & Professional Development, for L&S Students
Steve Narf featured in OnWisconsin article about the Physics Museum

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LZ experiment featured in "UW Fueling Discovery"
Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
Honorary Degree recipient Dr. Fahey
Monday, May 7th, 2018
Prototype camera set for integration into novel gamma-ray telescope
Friday, May 4th, 2018
Profs Justin Vandenbroucke and Jay Gallagher receive UW2020 award to develop instrumentation for studying the highest energy photons
Friday, May 4th, 2018
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