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July 27, 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...
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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...
July 14, 2020
Larry Gladney (Professor of Physics) has been tapped to chair the FAS committee on communal expectations for teaching and learning. Over the coming weeks, this committee,...
July 7, 2020
Wright Lab assistant professor Laura Newburgh has been developing an innovative technique to calibrate radio telescopes across the world, in particular CHIME in Canada and...
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June 17, 2020
It beats like a busy signal — one scientists were excited to get. A new study in Nature reports the discovery of a fast radio burst (FRB) that pulses at regular intervals —...
June 2, 2020
Luna Zagorac (Graduate Student with Nikhil Padmanabhan) has been selected as a Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) recipient with...
May 29, 2020
‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object to pass through Earth’s solar system, has been called many things: a comet, an asteroid, a cigar-shaped spaceship. Now it has a...