Megan Finnigan

Class of 2024 physics graduates featured in the Coloradan

March 20, 2024

The class of 2024 is unique, with many students having arrived on campus during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Three physics and engineering physics students graduating in 2024 share their experiences in the latest issue of the Coloradan.

Leo Radzihovsky

Leo Radzihovsky named Professor of Distinction by College of Arts & Sciences

March 15, 2024

Leo Radzihovsky has been named a Professor of Distinction by the College of Arts & Sciences. The honorific title is reserved for scholars and artists of national and international distinction who are also recognized by their college peers as teachers and colleagues of exceptional talent.

Bethany Wilcox

Professor Bethany Wilcox receives 2024 BFA Excellence in Teaching Award

March 12, 2024

The Boulder Faculty Assembly has recognized Assistant Professor Bethany Wilcox for her outstanding classroom teaching and student mentoring with the 2024 BFA Excellence in Teaching Award.

Jennifer Turner-Valle

Jennifer Turner-Valle scholarships support Quantum Scholars

March 7, 2024

Five students in the Quantum Scholars program have been awarded a scholarship in honor of Jennifer Turner-Valle, an alumna of ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ Physics. The named scholarships are a tribute to Dr. Turner-Valle who passed away in 2023.

Sae Woo Nam

NIST Physicist and CU Physics Lecturer Sae Woo Nam, Pioneer in Single-Photon Detectors, passes away

March 6, 2024

Paul Beae

Professor Paul Beale talks Leap Day, black holes and the Gamow Lecture with KOA's Ross Kaminsky

March 1, 2024

Judah Levine pictured in front of a clock

Professor Judah Levine interviewed about Leap Day

Feb. 29, 2024

Profesor Adjoint of Physics and JILA/NIST Fellow Judah Levine serves as the head of the Network Synchronization Project in the Time and Frequency Division at NIST. He was recently interviewed by Denver 7 and the New York Times about timekeeping, the history of the leap day, and why he's advocating for a leap minute rather than periodically adding leap seconds. (Image credit: J. Burrus/NIST)

Artist's rendering of a supermassive black hole. Image credit: NASA/JPL Cal-Tech

Nobel Prize winner Andrea Ghez to give 53rd Gamow lecture

Feb. 22, 2024

Andrea Ghez, recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics, will give the 53rd George Gamow Memorial Lecture March 5 at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Students in the Quantum Scholars program listen to a presentation.

SPIE commits $100,000 in matching funds to grow Quantum Scholars Program

Feb. 22, 2024

The Quantum Scholars Program has received a big boost in the form of a matching gift from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. SPIE has committed to matching $100,000 in external gifts to the program over the next two academic years.

Allie Plocki pictured with several other award winners

Physics major receives Outstanding Student Presentation Award

Feb. 2, 2024

Physics major Allie Plocki (left) pictured with two other award winners at the APS 4 Corners Section Meeting. (Credit: Utah State University College of Science) Undergraduate physics major Allie Plocki won an Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the recent American Physical Society’s Four Corners Section Meeting. The conference was hosted...

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