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Three students receive Sophomore Research Fellowships
Three students — two physics majors, one astronomy-physics — have received a UW–Madison Sophomore Research Fellowship as a fellow or honorable mention. The students are: Ella Chevalier, Astronomy-Physics; working with Ke Zhang (Astronomy) Erica Magee, Mathematics, Physics; …
May 26, 2023
Wasikul Islam honored with UW Postdoc Association Excellence in Service Award
Wasikul Islam, a postdoc in Sau Lan Wu’s group, was recognized by the UW–Madison Postdoc Association with an Excellence in Service Award. He was nominated for his science outreach activities, promotion of basic sciences, volunteering …
May 26, 2023
Ke Fang earns NSF CAREER award
Congrats to Ke Fang, assistant professor of physics, WIPAC faculty member, and HAWC spokesperson, on earning an NSF CAREER award! CAREER awards are NSF’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the …
May 4, 2023
Researchers capture elusive missing step in the final act of photosynthesis
This story was modified from one originally published by SLAC Photosynthesis plays a crucial role in shaping and sustaining life on Earth, yet many aspects of the process remain a mystery. One such mystery is …
May 3, 2023
Big discoveries, lofty goals highlight astronomy Investiture panel
This story was originally published by University Communications as part of their coverage of Chancellor Mnookin’s Investiture A group of astronomers and physicists, including Physics professor Francis Halzen, shared the stories behind their groundbreaking discoveries …
April 14, 2023
IceCube search for sub-TeV neutrino emission associated with LIGO/Virgo gravitational waves
Gravitational waves (GWs) are produced by some of the most extreme astrophysical phenomena, such as black hole and neutron star mergers. They have long been suspected as astrophysical sources of neutrinos, ghostlike cosmic messengers hurtling …
April 6, 2023
Dan McCammon earns L&S Distinguished Academic Advising Achievement Award
The College of Letters & Science announced this week that Prof. Dan McCammon has been awarded a 2022-23 Distinguished Academic Advising Achievement Award, the highest advising honor the College bestows. Persons honored with an L&S Academic …
March 31, 2023
Justin Vandenbroucke receives Vilas Associates award
This story was originally published by WIPAC UW–Madison physics professor Justin Vandenbroucke was selected as one of 23 awardees of the Vilas Associates Competition. The announcement was made recently by the Office of the Vice …
March 30, 2023
Alex Levchenko earns L&S Distinguished Honors Faculty Award
Congrats to physics professor Alex Lechenko for earning a 2022-23 College of Letters & Science Distinguished Honors Faculty Award! Each year, the L&S Honors Program solicits student nominations of faculty members or instructional academic staff …
March 29, 2023
Physics students earn 2023 NSF graduate fellowships
Congrats to current Physics PhD students Samuel Hori and Alysa Rogers and undergraduate Emil Pellett on earning 2023 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships! Congrats also to PhD student Spencer Weeden for earning an honorable …
March 29, 2023
UW–Madison researchers key in search for neutrino emission from the brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected
This story was originally published by WIPAC On October 9th, 2022, an unusually bright pulse of high-energy radiation whizzed past Earth, captivating astronomers around the world. The luminous emission came from a gamma-ray burst (GRB), …
March 28, 2023
IceCube performs the first search for neutrinos from novae
White dwarfs are very dense, compact objects that are one of the possibilities for the final evolutionary state of stars. If they happen to be in a binary system with another companion star, the white …
March 28, 2023
NASA funds Fundamental Physics proposal from Shimon Kolkowitz
This post is adapted from a NASA news release; read the original here NASA’s Fundamental Physics Program has selected seven proposals, including one from UW–Madison physics professor Shimon Kolkowitz, submitted in response to the Research …
March 17, 2023
Justin Marquez and Sam Kramer named L&S Teaching Mentors
Congrats to physics PhD students Justin Marquez and Sam Kramer on being named 2023-24 L&S Teaching Mentors! The L&S TA Training & Support Team is responsible for welcoming and training hundreds of new TAs each year. Teaching …
March 16, 2023
Soren Ormseth earns campus-wide teaching award
This post is adapted from one originally published by the Graduate School Twenty-one outstanding graduate students — including physics PhD student Soren Ormseth — have been selected as recipients of the 2022-23 UW–Madison Campus-Wide Teaching …
March 16, 2023
Help IceCube decode signals from outer space in new Citizen Science project
Every second, about 100 trillion neutrinos pass through your body unnoticed. At the South Pole, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory detects these elusive particles and works to identify their astronomical origins to help unlock mysteries of …
March 16, 2023
Royal visit strengthens WIPAC and IceCube’s partnership with Thailand
A budding collaboration between the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center and Chiang Mai University in Thailand took a grand turn with a visit to the Royal Palace in Bangkok. There, discussions between scientists from WIPAC, a …
February 23, 2023
The Wonders of Physics celebrates 40 seasons
The Wonders of Physics shows in Chamberlin Hall, Feb 11-12 and Feb 18-19, kept the audience riveted with scientific experiments that demonstrated physics principles with panache. It also was a landmark show of sorts, as …
February 23, 2023
New quantum sensing technique reveals magnetic connections
By Leah Hesla, Q-NEXT A research team supported by the Q-NEXT quantum research center demonstrates a new way to use quantum sensors to tease out relationships between microscopic magnetic fields. Say you notice a sudden …
February 17, 2023
Smooth sailing for electrons in graphene
This story was originally published by University Communications Physicists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison directly measured, for the first time at nanometer resolution, the fluid-like flow of electrons in graphene. The results, which will …
February 16, 2023- Physics News Archives