Scientists from Indiana University are among the thousands of researchers worldwide honored with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, awarded to the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) alongside its sister experiments ALICE, CMS and LHCb.
Owen Leonard has been awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship—the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship in STEM—based on a research essay, written while being mentored by Professor Raymond Co.
Jooyun Woo came to Bloomington with her husband, who was accepted into IUB, and decided that she wanted to study physics. However she was unable to afford IU tuition and formally enroll in physics classes. This circumstance would deter the great majority of students from pursuing undergraduate work in physics. Not Jooyun.
The Faculty Innovation Ambassadors (FIA) initiative aims to foster a culture of innovation and facilitate the translation of research into impactful solutions. Congratulations to Professor Chen-Ting Liao from our department!
Kylie Dickerson has won the GNeUS Global Neutron Scientists Fellowship from the European Union for neutron research.
IU physics PhD thesis student Clayton Auton, an IU undergraduate physics major who decided to stay at IU for his PhD work, has accepted a 4-month paid internship position with Sphere Labs, a global technology company that specializes in developing advanced payment solutions for businesses worldwide.
Alan Kostelecky received the 2025 Norman Ramsey Prize for the development of the Standard Model Extension and for its application to, and inspiration for, a broad set of precision measurement tests across various physical systems, some of which have reached Planck-scale sensitivity.
IUB Department of Physics faculty member, Dr. Caryn Palatchi, has received the National Science Foundation's (NSF) prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award. This award supports early-career faculty members who show great potential within their fields to conduct impactful research and to serve as academic role models.
Phil Richerme, Asso. Prof. of Physics, was announced as one of this year’s group of Experimental Physics Investigators by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
On June 17, 2024, the NOvA collaboration presented new results at the Neutrino 2024 conference in Milan, Italy.
Patrick Blackstone, a member of the IU Physics Nuclear Theory group working with Prof. Emilie Passemar, will address IU Graduates when he receives his PhD at commencement on May 3rd.
The 36th National Nuclear Physics Summer School (NNPSS) will be held from July 15 - July 26, 2024 at Indiana University, Bloomington campus. This summer school is open to graduate students and junior postdocs in experimental or theoretical nuclear physics.
Physics professor Charles Horowitz honored for diversifying the field through mentorship
Doctoral Student Chaundy McKeever discusses her work using Deep Learning to evaluate the biometrics of neurodivergent individuals with a colleague at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Ms. McKeever traveled to the conference in Washington D.C. using her Executive Dean’s Travel Award for Women in Science. Her results from Prof. Jorge Jose’s biophysics lab establish a link between how people move and their neurodevelopment and may assist in treatments.
Jim Faller, one of the most scientifically distinguished of IU physics undergraduates, passed away in summer 2023. After graduating from IU in 1955, Faller joined the legendary gravity group of R. H. Dicke at Princeton, where Faller conceived of a way to measure the Earth-Moon distance using highly-polished mirrors assembled into a corner cube retroreflector. This idea was adopted by the Apollo program, and the measurements it enables have been used to conduct high precision tests of general relativity. The picture shows his device as it was carried onto the lunar surface.
IUB will collaborate with 7 other institutions in a recently-awarded NSF International Research Exchange for Students (IRES) grant. This grant will support three cohorts of six U.S. undergraduates and one U.S. graduate student to go Nagoya University in Japan for 10 weeks in the summers of 2024, 2025, and 2026.
Prof. Walter C. Pettus leads publication in Phys. Rev. Lett. demonstrating a new technique for directly measuring mass of neutrino. Pettus and Project 8 collaborators made measurements of tritium decays using Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy.
Sepehr Samiei has won a fellowship from the German DAAD program for scientific work at the FRM research reactor near Munich, Germany for three months in early 2024.
A group of nuclear physicists at CEEM have built "HoverCrafts," a new exhibit at WonderLab Museum of science, Health, and Technology in Bloomington, with funding provided by a National Science Foundation grant.
Astrophysics PhD Candidate Marvin Jones, Jr. presented his research at 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference in Nagoya, Japan
IUB physics PhD thesis student Jerry Balta has won a NSF INTERN award. The NSF INTERN program supports PhD students to spend 6 months working at a company as part of their educational training.
A group of IUB physics undergraduates and high school students have made major progress toward their goal of designing and constructing an apparatus to demonstrate the quantum entanglement of the linear polarization of gamma rays emitted back-to-back upon positron annihilation in matter.
Three IU experimental nuclear physics grad students, Kylie Dickerson, Bo Johnson, and Gabe Otero, have won year long fellowships from the DOE SCGSR program.
IU Physics professor Walter Pettus and collaborators publish the final results from the Majorana Demonstrator’s search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge.
Prof. Paul Sokol was elected to serve on the DMP Executive Committee of the American Physical Society. His 3 year term begins following the 2023 March Meeting in Los Vegas, NV.
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