General News

Professor Hans Courant, veteran of the Manhattan Project, was featured in the New York Times, "Voices of the Manhattan Project" More »

Physics Faculty, staff and students are invited to a a seasonal party to help raise participation in the Community Fund Drive. The party will take place on Friday, October 10 at 3:00 p.m. in Room 216.

The Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) was featured in Connect!, the alumni magazine of the College of education and Human Development. Read the story here.

The annual School of Physics and Astronomy departmental photo will be taken on Wednesday, October 1st at 3:15 p.m. on the front steps of Tate Laboratory of Physics. More »

A faulty electrical connection between two superconducting magnets may be to blame for an incident that will delay the start of beam collisions at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland for at least two months. More »

See Professor Dan Dahlberg's segment on Minnesota Live. Dahlberg went on the program as part of Physics Force to promote the Institute of Technology's Math/Science Fun Fair. More »

Professor P. James E. Peebles of Princeton University will deliver the Third Misel Lecture, "Finding the Big Bang" at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 23rd in Physics 150. More »

The annual physics fall picnic will be held this Saturday, September 21st from 1-5 p.m. at Boom Island Park in Minneapolis. More »

Roger Rusack and Joseph Kapusta have been making been making local media appearances, talking about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Rusack, Kapusta and Jeremiah Mans, at CERN, were on MPR's Midmorning show on September 12th More »

The European Organization of Nuclear Research (CERN) has scheduled the first beam for the LHC for September 10th. More »