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UA Physics in the News

  • HEP Seminar – Prof. Makoto Natsuume (KEK, Tsukuba) – Spring 2023
  • Looking for interstellar dust, finding gravitational lens with JWST
  • UA Researchers Contribute to Startup of Dark Matter Detector

Category: News Feature

Physics Major Sarah Deutsch Wins Catherine Johnson Randall Award

  • February 17th, 2020

From the UA News Center | The University established the Premier Awards to recognize UA students, faculty and staff who exemplify the highest standards of scholarship, service, leadership and character.

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Categories: News Feature, Physics Tags: student achievement

IEEE Magnetics Society selects faculty member Tim Mewes as a 2020 Distinguished Lecturer

  • September 26th, 2019

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Categories: News Feature, Physics

Assistant Professor Paulo Araujo Receives NSF CAREER Award to Work on Optical Properties of Polymers

  • September 26th, 2019

From the UA News Center | The nation’s most prestigious recognition of top-performing young scientists was recently awarded to a physicist at The University of Alabama. The National Science Foundation

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Categories: Faculty Spotlight, News Feature, Physics Tags: condensed matter physics

UA Gamma-ray Astrophysics Group Awarded Grant for Work on Sources of Gamma-rays, Neutrinos, and Gravitational Waves

  • August 9th, 2019

The recent discovery of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources has opened new windows of exploration to the Universe. These observations, combined with sensitive electromagnetic measurements with space-

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Categories: Astronomy, News Feature Tags: gamma-ray group, research

NSF awards full funding of IceCube neutrino detecter upgrade involving UA

  • July 22nd, 2019

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Categories: Astronomy, News Feature, Physics

UA Physicists Collaborate with US Army Researchers on Chemical Sensors

  • April 15th, 2019

Work from the ongoing collaboration between University of Alabama physicist Dr. Adam Hauser, his students, and U.S. Army scientist Jennifer Soliz of the U.S Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical

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Categories: News Feature, Physics Tags: condensed matter physics, research

Postdoc Chris West Receives 2018 CMS Achievement Award

  • March 1st, 2019

University of Alabama postdoctoral researcher Chris West was recently awarded a 2018 CMS Achievement Award, for his contributions to the Hadronic Calorimeter (HCAL) project on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS)

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Categories: News Feature, Physics Tags: CMS detector, research

UA hosts the Southeastern US site for the APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics

  • January 15th, 2019

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Categories: Astronomy, News Feature, Physics

IceCube neutrino detector collaboration involving UA funded for upgrade

  • October 5th, 2018

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Categories: Astronomy, News Feature, Physics, Uncategorized

CERN Experiment Involving UA’s Henderson and Rumerio Observes Long-Sought Higgs Boson

  • September 12th, 2018

The Higgs boson has at last been observed decaying to fundamental particles known as bottom quarks. The finding, presented today at CERN by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is consistent with the

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Categories: News Feature, Physics Tags: research
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