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A new experiment by the Liquid Crystal Material Research Center in the Department of Physics is slated to go up to the International Space Station as part of NASA's SpaceX Commercial Resupply Launch this afternoon. The OASIS project will join several ongoing experiments on the space station when it launches...

²ÊÃñ±¦µä faculty and students are primed to get back in action following the Easter restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful atom smasher located near Geneva, Switzerland, after a two-year hiatus. Following intensive upgrades and repairs, proton beams from the LHC once again...

Professor Emeritus David A. Lind passed away Friday March 6, 2015 at the age of 96. David earned a B.S. in Physics from the University of Washington in 1940, and a Ph.D. in Physics from CalTech in 1948. He joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin as an assistant...

Once again, the University of Colorado Department of Physics earned top rankings from the U.S. News & World Report . The rankings were announced in early March 2015. ²ÊÃñ±¦µä's Department of Physics was declared the top school in the nation for Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics for a second...

Congratulations to Professor Noah Finkelstein, who was named CU's first ever Timmerhaus Teaching Ambassador. The announcement was mad on March 4, 2015. This new outreach program is designed to tap educators to promote discussion of teaching and learning in schools and communities across the state. After a lengthy selection process,...

Congratulations to the NASA MMS Team, led by CU Physics Professor Marty Goldman who launched the NASA Magnetosphere Multiscale Mission (MMS). The Mission launched from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas V rocket on Thursday, March 12. The MMS Mission will study explosive events in two regions of Earth’s magnetosphere. One...

Congratulations to the PhET Interactive Simulations team, who took home one of two prizes from the Wharton-QS Stars Awards 2014: Reimagine Education . The PhET Simulation project will share a $50,000 price with PaGamO, the world's first multi-student social game. Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, PhET provides...

Congratulations to Professor Leo Radzihovsky, who was recently named a 2014 Simons Foundation Investigator. The award was announced in July. According to the Foundation Web site, "The Simons Investigators program provides a stable base of support for outstanding scientists, enabling them to undertake long-term study of fundamental questions." Leo Radzihovsky...

Congratulations to Professor Shijie Zhong, who was recently elected a 2014 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Dr. Zhong was recognized, "for fundamental, profound, and unselfish contributions to advancing the understanding of the dynamics of the Earth, Moon, and the terrestrial planets." The announcement was made on Tuesday, July 29th...

Congratulations to Physics Professor and JILA Fellow Deborah Jin, who earned the prestigious 2014 Isaac Newton Medal by the Institute of Physics. The award was announced on Tuesday, July 1, 2014. The Institute of Physics is a leading international scientific society headquartered in London. The Isaac Newton award is given...