Halzen is the principal investigator of the NSF IceCube Neutrino Observatory, the world’s largest telescope.
Read the full article at: https://news.wisc.edu/university-of-wisconsin-madison-professor-francis-halzen-named-2026-nobel-laureate-in-physics/
Include Engage Challenge (IEC) is a CTLM initiative to partner with UW–Madison academic departments on making big changes that enhance learning in undergraduate courses.
IEC provides funding and staff expertise to support instructors as they engage in course transformation, over a multi-year period.
Peter Timbie and Josh Weber’s proposal for the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Mentoring’s Include Engage Challenge (IEC) initiative was recently selected! The department is excited to see the Physics 202 labs reform work starting soon!
Congratulations Peter and Josh!
More information on Include Engage Challenge can be found here.
Last month, the U.S. National Science Foundation renewed a cooperative agreement with the University of Wisconsin–Madison to manage and operate the NSF IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The five-year, $53 million cooperative agreement entails the continued operation and maintenance of IceCube for the period 2026-2031. “The generous funding will allow us to further improve the performance of [...]
Read the full article at: https://icecube.wisc.edu/news/awards/2026/08/the-u-s-national-science-foundation-renews-nsf-icecube-operation-and-maintenance-contract/
Between July 13 and 15, the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) hosted members of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO)-US/Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT) Collaboration for its 2026 summer meeting. The SCT, a medium-sized telescope for CTAO, will be able to detect gamma rays from cosmic sources such as pulsars and supermassive black holes in order [...]
Read the full article at: https://wipac.wisc.edu/wipac-hosts-the-2026-summer-meeting-of-the-ctao-us-sct-collaboration/
At the South Pole, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, embedded in a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice, searches for weakly interacting particles called neutrinos that are able to travel undisturbed through the cosmos. Earlier this year, scientists at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) reported, for the first time, an interesting feature or “break” in [...]
Read the full article at: https://wipac.wisc.edu/wipac-study-provides-a-clue-about-a-feature-in-the-spectrum-of-cosmic-neutrinos/
Prof. Bechtol was awarded the H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship.
Prof. Bose was awarded the Kellet Mid-Career Award.
Prof. Shiu was named a WARF Named Professor.
WARF Named Professorships, Kellett Fellowships, and Romnes awards represent some of the most meaningful investments in the people who drive discovery at UW–Madison, according to Dorota Brzezinska, vice chancellor for research.
Additional details can be found here.
The Air Force Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) supports individual early-in-career scientists and engineers showing exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The program’s objective is to foster creative basic research in science and engineering; enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators; and increase opportunities for the young investigator to recognize the Air Force and Space Force mission and related challenges in science and engineering.
YIP awards are funded up to $150,000 per year for three years, for a total of $450,000.
Congratulations Ben!
Additional award details can be found here.