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Physics Graduate Student Chuankun Zhang Presents on Nuclear Clock Research for a Physics Colloquium at CU Boulder

Oct. 1, 2024

For the first lecture in the Fall Physics Colloquium Series, Chuankun Zhang, a graduate student from the 91制片厂国产AV's physics department and a researcher at JILA, delivered an insightful talk titled 鈥 Optical Nuclear Clock: Nuclear Physics Meets Metrology 鈥. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a rare opportunity and a very special...

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LASP-led NASA鈥檚 MAVEN mission commemorates 10 years in Mars鈥 orbit

Oct. 1, 2024

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Professor Meredith Betterton Wins a 2024 AB Nexus Award

Sept. 25, 2024

Recently, the AB Nexus program announced its 2024 seed grant awards, recognizing interdisciplinary research teams from the 91制片厂国产AV and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. The AB Nexus program fosters intercampus partnerships between scientists, engineers, and physicians to improve human health further. The 2024 AB Nexus...

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CU Boulder Physics Professor Noah Finkelstein Partners with CU Boulder History Professor Phoebe Young to Study the Importance of Belonging at Universities

Aug. 20, 2024

In the current landscape of higher education, familiar challenges like disengaged students, faculty burnout, and high staff turnover can frequently dominate discussions. Often seen as separate issues, these challenges can be viewed through a systems perspective to reveal deeper, interconnected roots鈥攃hief among them a pervasive lack of belonging across all...

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CU Physics Professor Ivan Smalyukh and His Team Receive a Guinness Book of World Records Award for Most Transparent Material

Aug. 15, 2024

The Soft Matter Physics Smalyukh Research Group holding the Guinness World Record plaque. Only a few individuals or teams are awarded by the Guinness Book of World Records for specific actions or research they鈥檝e done. One of those teams is led by the 91制片厂国产AV Professor of Physics...

Sun Park

Graduate student Sun Park explores new breakthroughs in measuring electron EDM in new NIST blog

Aug. 12, 2024

Luke Coffman

Undergraduate Student Luke Coffman is Awarded a 2024 Astronaut Scholarship

Aug. 8, 2024

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Women and Gender Minorities in Physics (WaGMiP) group hosts alumna Dr. Marty Baylor (PhDPhys鈥07)

Aug. 7, 2024

Dr. Marty Baylor On July 18, 2024, members of CU Boulder's Women and Gender Minorities in Physics (WaGMiP) group gathered for an informal lunch at the picnic tables outside the JILA tower. The special guest for the event was Dr. Marty Baylor, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Carleton College...

Angel Hernandez

Engineering physics senior explores radio astronomy through summer research

July 31, 2024

Engineering physics senior Angel Hernandez is spending the summer looking to the stars and learning the fundamentals of radio astronomy. Earlier this summer, Hernandez completed a boot camp on radio astronomy at the Green Bank Observatory (GBO) in West Virginia. Now he鈥檚 at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory鈥檚 Research Experience...

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Professor Dan Baker quoted in Daily Camera Article about the dangers of space junk

July 31, 2024

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