School of Physics and Astronomy
School News
2024 Graduate Awards and Fellowships
There are 21 graduate award and fellowship recipients in the School for 2021.
2024 Undergraduate Scholarship Recipients
There are 39 recipients and 14 undergraduate scholarships. The winners are as follows.
Glesener part of NASA's first solar flare observation campaign
Professor Lindsay Glesener, of the School of Physics and Astronomy is part of a research team launching a sounding rocket to study solar flares. The rocket, named Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (
Inside Professor McLeod’s Nano-Imaging Laboratory
Professor Alexander McLeod’s nano-imaging lab creates novel ways to study materials as well as looking for new physics in those materials. Nano-spectroscopy is a technique that attaches conventional
Liu receives prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for early-career researchers
School of Physics and Astronomy Assistant Professor Zhen Liu is one of only 126 early-career researchers who will receive a prestigious 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship.
Coughlin and Criswell part of comprehensive UV light survey
Assistant Professor Michael Coughlin and graduate student Alexander Criswell of the School of Physics and Astronomy are part of a new NASA mission that has just been selected to conduct a