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Join us in March for the 2026 Ford Motor Company Distinguished Lecture in Physics Professor Richard Friend will give the Ford lecture on March 11 at 4:00 PM in the Rackham Amphitheater.

Welcome to University of Michigan Physics Join us as we strive to provide an incisive and enriching education for our students by making lasting contributions at the forefront of human understanding and by communicating the excitement of scientific discovery.

Meet Carolyn B. Parker! A U-M graduate, scientist, and mathematician who helped to uncover the frightening power of radiation.

Get Involved in the Physics Community! Take a look at our organizations. They offer a place for students involved in physics to get to know and support one another.

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To get lifelike movement from synthetic materials, physics researchers can embrace chaos

Chemical reactions that are sensitive to force could help power engineered materials that beat, twitch and shiver like living tissue for new applications in robotics and other technologies

MicroBooNE experiment finds no evidence for the long-sought ‘sterile neutrino’

Physicist Joshua Spitz, doctoral student Benjamin Bogart, and the MicroBooNE team conclude there is less than a 5% chance that anomalies in earlier neutrino experiments can be explained by the existence of a single new particle.

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