Professor Gergely Zimanyi has been elected to membership in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Only 2-3 physicists are selected each year for this honor. 2025 is the 200 year anniversary of the founding of the Academy.
As the Vera Rubin Observatory team are commissioning their camera, the College of Letters and Science Magazine has a piece on its history, going all the way back to Distinguished Research Professor Tony Tyson's adolescence. “ 'I was a very sick child and in a steam tent for a year,' said Tyson, who suffered from rheumatic fever at the time. 'My dad got me an old shortwave radio, and I put on headphones and dropped a wire out of the window. I could tune in the rest of the world.' ” “That experience with shortwave radio spurred an interest in Tyson. Transmissions, invisible to the naked eye, were all around. He just needed to find a way to tune into them. By age 12, Tyson secured a ham radio license. As he sifted through the static, he connected with others from around the world. Years later, he applied this antenna-like attention to the stars.” More.
Distinguished Research Professor Andreas Albrecht was interviewed extensively by Professor Brian Greene, as part of the World Science Festival.
Dr. Brenna Mocker will join our department as an assistant professor this summer. Dr. Tessa Cookmeyer accepted an offer of an Assistant Professor position in Physics and Astronomy. The position will start in 2026.
Nobel laureate Adam Riess to give public lecture, The Surprising Expansion History of the Universe
On January 14, the White House announced that President Biden named Professor Andrew Wetzel as one of nearly 400 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
For several months earlier this year Physics and Astronomy PhD student Arsalan Adil traveled across northern Pakistan by motorcycle, sharing his love of science. In a recent Letters and Science Magazine article he is quoted as saying, “We often have discussions about diversity, equity and inclusion in physics, but often missing from these discussions are considerations about global inequities. There are so many people who are passionate about science, who want to study science, but they don’t have the resources for it.”
