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![Alexander McLeod, Nitzan Hirschberg and Alyssa Bragg](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/powertrio.jpg?itok=rk-W0q2w)
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
![Zhen Liiu smiling man in glasses and a blue polo shirt](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/ZhenLiu.png?itok=K-Fj8inM)
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.
![Michael Coughlin and Alexander Criswell](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/CoughlinCriswell.png?itok=ugl30nLy)
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
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Three School Alumni elected to National Academy of Engineering
Three alumni of the School of Physics and Astronomy: Martha C. Anderson (Ph.D., Astrophysics ‘93), Kei May Lau (B.A.,’76, M.S. ‘77), and Jeffrey Puschell (Ph.D., Astrophysics ‘79) have been elected
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Coughlin receives McKnight Professorship
School of Physics and Astronomy Assistant Professor Michael Coughlin has been awarded a 2024 McKnight Land-Grant Professorship.
![Wall of Discovery shows the plot for the Humphreys-Davidson Limit, Professor Humphreys stands near it with Prof. Davidson.](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/RobertaArmsfoldedWeb.jpg?itok=RhsqJ4hd)
Humphreys Awarded Medal from Royal Astronomical Society
Professor Emerita Roberta Humphreys of the School of Physics and Astronomy will receive the 2024 Herschel Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society for her discovery of the empirical upper luminosity