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KU Department of Physics & Astronomy professor receives prestigious NSF award for black hole research
Elisabeth Mills, Assistant Professor of physics and astronomy, has received a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to continue her groundbreaking research on supermassive black holes.
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Graduate Student Appreciation Week
In honor of our graduate students and in recognition of Graduate Student Appreciation Week, the department will be hosti
Physics & Astronomy Department - Annual Award Winners
Please visit this link (PDF) for information about the 2021 award winners.
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.
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.
KU To Lead New Program Supporting Inter-American Research on Nuclear Science
LAWRENCE — Quarks and gluons are fundamental building blocks of all visible matter in the universe. They’re described by the theory of strong nuclear interactions: quantum chromodynamics, or QCD.
J. Michael Young Award
Prof. Ian Lewis receives the J. Michael Young Academic Advisor Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Fall 2021 UGRAs
KU Physics & Astronomy undergraduates Casey Carlile and Anika Goel receive Fall 2021 UGRA positions.
How the University of Kansas Is Paving the Way in Revealing Radiation
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.
Odderon discovered
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.