News

Wed, 03/09/2022

Physics & Astronomy Department - Annual Award Winners

Please visit this link (PDF) for information about the 2021 award winners. ...

Fri, 02/25/2022

KU Physics & Astronomy REU

Applications are open now and due by March 15th! For more information and to apply, you can visit the REU website. ...

Thu, 12/02/2021

KU astronomers help point the way forward for America's research priorities

Fri, 10/15/2021

Join us for NASA Eyes, Kansas Minds II: JWST on October 30

Learn about how the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will explore the Universe like never before! Register for this free virtual public workshop. ...

Tue, 09/14/2021

KU to lead new program supporting inter-American research on nuclear science

Wed, 09/01/2021

J. Michael Young Award (Opens in new window)

Prof. Ian Lewis receives the J. Michael Young Academic Advisor Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. ...

Thu, 06/03/2021

Fall 2021 UGRAs

KU Physics & Astronomy undergraduates Casey Carlile and Anika Goel receive Fall 2021 UGRA positions.
Mon, 04/12/2021

How the University of Kansas Is Paving the Way in Revealing Radiation (Opens in new window)

New technologies developed at the University of Kansas are revealing radiation with unprecedented precision and giving a better understanding of the secrets of matter from the scale of the Universe to quarks.
Tue, 03/09/2021

Odderon discovered (Opens in new window)

The TOTEM collaboration at the LHC, in collaboration with the DØ collaboration at the former Tevatron collider at Fermilab, have announced the discovery of the odderon – an elusive three-gluon state predicted almost 50 years ago.
Fri, 01/08/2021

Women Supporting Women in the Sciences

Women Supporting Women in the Sciences (WS2) is an international initiative unifying and supporting graduate and professional-level women and allies in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), while providing outreach to elementary and secondary level students. Since late 2018, graduate students and postdocs from Northwestern University and several institutions in...

Wed, 09/16/2020

KU astronomer helps confirm first-ever planet found orbiting white dwarf star

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