July 2020 News

July 31, 2020
The Leigh Page Prize is offered to first year graduate students in recognition of their fine academic record and for the promise of important contributions to the field of...
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July 28, 2020
SU(5) is a peer support and mentorship program for first year graduate students in physics and astronomy. For many students, the transition from undergraduate to graduate...
July 28, 2020
Welcome to Jinyong Ma who comes to us as a postdoctoral associate working with Jack Harris. His current research is focused on quantum phenomena in a liquid optomechanical...
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The white points show "hits" recorded by particles emerging from the collision as they strike sensors in three layers of the HFT. Scientists use the hits to reconstruct charged particle tracks (red and green lines) to measure the relative abundance of certain kinds of particles emerging from the collision—in this case, charmed lambda particles. (Image courtesy of STAR Collaboration)
July 23, 2020
Wright Lab’s professor of physics Helen Caines is co-spokesperson of the STAR Collaboration, which has recently released a new result that may redefine how nuclear physicists...
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July 15, 2020
The APS Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Alliance (APS-IDEA) is a new initiative with a mission of empowering and supporting physics departments, laboratories, and other...