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![Sabrina Savage and Lindsay Glesener at the launch site in Alaska.](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/WFF-2024-021-402%282%29.jpg.webp?itok=P53-3UFy)
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 (
![Alexander McLeod, Nitzan Hirschberg and Alyssa Bragg](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/powertrio.jpg.webp?itok=eYxjfEOn)
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.webp?itok=vK74BYUa)
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.webp?itok=sHMSL0WJ)
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
![Three School Alumni elected to engineering society](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/AEMAlumniTrio.png.webp?itok=RFrKoOli)
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
![Michael Coughlin smiling man wearing glasses](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/CoughlinWideforWeb.jpg.webp?itok=a5lj1kED)
Coughlin receives McKnight Professorship
School of Physics and Astronomy Assistant Professor Michael Coughlin has been awarded a 2024 McKnight Land-Grant Professorship.