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Getting to Know Goldwater Scholar Lopa Bhatt
Monday, May 11, 2020
Lopa Bhatt, a physics major studying electron microsopy, was awarded a Barry M. Goldwater scholarship for the 2020-2021 academic year. The nationally competitive award is widely recognized as the most prestigious scholarship available…
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High Energy Physics Faculty Contribute to Experiments that Claim Top European Physics Prize
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
The High Energy Particle Physics Division of the European Physical Society awarded the 2019 prize for an outstanding contribution to High Energy Physics to the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) and D-Zero (D0)…
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Shedding Light on Dark Matter
Friday, October 25, 2019
Assistant Professor James Unwin, along with collaborator Dr. Jakub Scholtz of the University of Durham, recently put forth an exciting hypothesis about a possible black hole on the edge of our solar system.…

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