/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news.html null Fri, 15 May 2026 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/physics-professor-tim-chupp-and-students-share-the-2026-breakthr.html The U-M team brought techniques from atomic, quantum and laser physics to the experiment to study muons. They focused on measuring the magnetic field within the experiment's large magnetic ring and calibrating the magnetic field measuring system. Mon, 04 May 2026 15:25:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/desi-completes-planned-3d-map-of-the-universe--is-still-explorin.html The U-M Physics research team helped the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument complete its 5-year survey ahead of schedule, with more data than anticipated, ushering in a new era of cosmology. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:55:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/physicist-mark-newman-awarded-the-2026-john-von-neumann-prize-.html The John von Neumann Prize is the highest honor and flagship lecture of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:17:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/physicist-thomas-schwarz-awarded-arthur-f--thurnau-professorship.html Professor Thomas Schwarz has been named an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, the university’s highest honor for faculty who demonstrate an extraordinary commitment to undergraduate education. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:24:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/norman-m--leff-assistant-professor-na-hyun-jo-selected-as-2026-c.html Dr. Na Hyun Jo has been named a 2026 Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA). Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:32:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/a--new-era--in-cosmology--dark-energy-survey-releases-new-analys.html Six years worth of data on nearly 670 million galaxies is helping scientists tighten the constraints on the dark energy driving the expansion of the universe Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:23:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/to-get-lifelike-movement-from-synthetic-materials--researchers-c.html 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 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:34:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/microboone-experiment-finds-no-evidence-for-the-long-sought--ste.html 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. Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:45:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/-really-bizarre-and-exciting---u-m-physicist-lu-li-and-team-find.html Pushing the limits of physics, the international team has shown that quantum oscillations—once thought confined to a material’s surface—can originate within its core, reshaping how scientists understand conductors, insulators, and everything in between. Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:49:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/the-year-a-flied-physics-lit-up-the-mlb.html Former U-M physics professor and U-M alum Aaron Leanhardt, now an MLB analyst, is changing the game—literally—with a bat born from science, precision, and a deep understanding of the “sweet spot.” Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:20:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/lsa-physicists-xiaoming-mao-and-liuyan-zhao-named-american-physi.html From quantum materials to topological mechanics, LSA physicists Xiaoming Mao and Liuyan Zhao have been named APS Fellows—an honor reserved for fewer than 0.5% of members each year. Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:38:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/physicist-xiaoming-mao-and-researchers-find-metamateri-stifle-vi.html James McInerney, former UM physics postdoc, currently researcher at Air Force Research Lab, Xiaoming Mao, and research team forged a new path to vibration isolation that may help absorb shocks in a variety of applications, including vehicles and buildings Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:01:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/how-an-in-between-quantum-state-could-boost-future-technologies.html New work by University of Michigan theorists Kai Sun and colleagues describes a physical phenomenon that could open new doors for things like quantum computers. U-M research fellow Kai Zhang and graduate student Chang Shu also contributed to the study. Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:19:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/dark-energy-filled-black-holes-plus-desi-data-give-neutrino-mass.html U-M's Greg Tarlé, Uendert Andrade and team helped develop a physical model based on black holes turning matter into dark energy, offering a cure to hiccups in our understanding of the universe, including the mass of ghost-like particles called neutrinos Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:12:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/researchers-capture-nanoparticle-organizations-to-forge-new-mate.html A research team, including physicist and co-author Xiaoming Mao and members from the University of Michigan, has unveiled a new observational technique that’s sensitive to the dynamics of the intrinsic quantum jiggles of materials, or phonons. Fri, 04 Jul 2025 14:57:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/-a-more-versatile-and-powerful-foundation-for-future-photonic-te.html Physics research team led by Professor Hui Deng has found more pathways than previously thought that can lead to optical topological insulators, materials with exciting properties that could have future applications in lasers, imaging devices, and more. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:56:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/scientists-achieve-record-precision-probing-a-particle-where-the.html An international team of scientists, including physicists Tim Chupp, David Aguillard, and Eva Kraegeloh, from the University of Michigan, has made the most precise measurement ever of an important, wobbly feature of a subatomic particle called the muon. Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:38:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/how-origami-could-unlock-a-new-class-of-materials0.html Origami—the art of paper folding that originated in Japan centuries ago—could open a new frontier in innovative materials, thanks to research led at the University of Michigan. Thu, 08 May 2025 17:01:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/u-m-physics-alum-and-nobel-laureate-samuel-ting-honored-with-202.html Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:09:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/professor-christine-aidala-honored-with-2025-rackham-distinguish.html Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:28:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/physics-assistant-professor-camille-avestruz-selected-as-2025-co.html Wed, 12 Feb 2025 22:00:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/physics-professor-gus-evrard-named-aas-fellow-for-2025.html U-M Physics Professor Gus Evrard recognized by The American Astronomical Society for his pioneering research and groundbreaking work. Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:58:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/getting-the-most-out-of-cosmic-maps---u-m-research-findings-feat.html Research led by the University of Michigan could help put cosmology on the inside track to reaching the full potential of telescopes and other instruments studying some of the universe's largest looming questions. Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:47:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/physics-professor-dragan-huterer-wins-the-chambliss-astronomical.html Physics Professor Dragan Huterer recently won the 2025 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award for his textbook, "A Course in Cosmology: From Theory to Practice" Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:51:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/physics-professor-liuyan-zhao-receives-pecase-award.html Professor Zhao is one of eight researchers from U-M to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor the U.S. government bestows on scientists and engineers beginning their independent research careers. Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:16:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/u-m-applied-physics-student--christopher-ayala--named-winner-of-.html Christopher Ayla's Presentation on 'High Harmonic Generation with Wide-Gap Semiconductors' Wins Outstanding Oral Presentation Award at the 2024 Joint Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and National Society of Hispanic Physicists. Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:57:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/not-so-simple--cracking-the-code-for-materials-that-can-learn.html U-M Physics Postdoctoral Researcher Shuaifeng Li and Professor Xiaoming Mao devised an algorithm that provides a mathematical framework for how learning works in lattices called mechanical neural networks. Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:09:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/-giving-tuesday--fundraiser-returns-on-december-3rd-.html Preliminary results show that 34 individual donors supported the Saturday Morning Physics Lecture Series! Thank YOU! Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:48:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/new-desi-results-weigh-in-on-gravity.html U-M Physicists Greg Tarlé and Dragan Huterer and several other U-M researchers are involved: research scientist Michael Schubnell, postdoctoral research fellow Uendert Andrade, and graduate students Otavio Alves, Sikandar Hanif, and Jiaming Pan. Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:34:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/physics-chair-david-gerdes-named-dean-of-cwru-s-college-of-arts-.html University of Michigan Professor David Gerdes will begin at Case Western Reserve in March. Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:08:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/u-m-researchers-greg-tarle-and-colleagues-mount-evidence-for-dar.html “It’s possible that what happened during inflation runs in reverse; the matter of a massive star becomes dark energy again during gravitational collapse—like a little Big Bang played in reverse," said Gregory Tarlé, professor emeritus of physics at U-M. Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:01:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/mining-for-neutrinos--and-for-cosmic-answers---featuring-u-m-alu.html In a South Dakota cavern, scientists are working to capture the most elusive particles in the universe. Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:52:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/lz-experiment-sets-new-record-in-search-for-dark-matter0.html One of the greatest puzzles in the universe is solving the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe. Read how the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, with 38 institutions, including U-M, searches for dark matter. Mon, 26 Aug 2024 21:49:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/muscle-machine--how-water-controls-the-speed-of-muscle-contracti.html U-M physicist Suraj Shankar, along with his research colleague, created a theoretical model of water’s role in muscle contraction and found that how fluid moves through a muscle fiber determines how quickly the muscle fiber can contract. Thu, 11 Jul 2024 20:04:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/u-m-study--using--tweezers--to-control-active-fluids.html U-M physicist Suraj Shankar and research colleagues have devised a way to manipulate active fluids, a type of fluid composed of individual units that can propel themselves independently, by taking advantage of topological defects in the fluids. Fri, 24 May 2024 17:24:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/physics-ph-d--candidate-and-professor-honored-with-willie-hobbs-.html Cynthia Nuñez, a Physics Ph.D. candidate, received the Willie Hobbs Moore Achievement Award. Tim McKay, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics, Astronomy, and Education, received the Cinda Sue Davis STEM Equity Leadership Award. Tue, 07 May 2024 16:55:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/a-new-measurement-of-the-expansion-history-of-the-universe.html Michigan physics researchers play central role in DESI’s precise and somewhat puzzling constraints on dark energy. Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:09:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/u-m-anatol-rapoport-distinguished-university-professor-of-physic.html Among other honors, Professor Newman is a Fellow of the APS and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Fri, 08 Mar 2024 20:16:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/u-m-physics-department-franco-nori-named-2024-charles-hard-towne.html Franco Nori is honored for his many fundamental contributions to quantum optics, quantum information processing, and quantum circuits, and for the development of key quantum software tools. Fri, 08 Mar 2024 19:50:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/support-michigan-physics-on-giving-blueday-1.html Thank you for your generosity this Giving Blueday! Thu, 07 Mar 2024 19:20:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/u-m-astronomer--get-to-the-path-of-april-s-total-solar-eclipse.html Astronomer and Physicist David Gerdes discusses what to expect from the rare solar event this Monday, April 8th! Mon, 04 Mar 2024 20:10:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/physics-student-sanil-mittal-awarded-stem-research-career-award-.html Sanil is the 2024 recipient of the STEM RCA! Mon, 04 Mar 2024 19:00:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/it-happened-at-michigan----you-ve-got-to-be-excellent-.html Willie Hobbs first stepped foot on U-M’s campus as an 18-year-old student in 1952. Twenty years later, as Willie Hobbs Moore, she was a three-time U‑M alumna and the first African-American woman in the country with a Ph.D. in physics. Wed, 06 Dec 2023 14:30:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/ready--set--go--giving-tuesday--help-women-in-physics.html You helped us raise enough funds to support 200 students to attend the Midwest Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics! Mon, 27 Nov 2023 23:44:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/five-physics-researchers-from-u-m-named-american-physical-societ.html “These five new fellows from five different divisions speak to both the excellence and the breadth of our faculty,” said David Gerdes, chair of the U-M Department of Physics. “I am so proud of all of their accomplishments in research and in the classroom. Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:29:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/u-m-collaboration-to-receive-doe-grant-to-diversify-physics.html The University of Michigan, Black Hills State University in South Dakota and Benedictine University in Illinois have received a $1.125 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to recruit students of diverse backgrounds into the field of physics. Mon, 25 Sep 2023 23:44:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/the-universe-caught-suppressing-cosmic-structure-growth.html U-M cosmologists found strong evidence for an anomalous growth of large-scale structure, and a hint for current tensions in cosmology. Mon, 11 Sep 2023 19:09:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/u-m-physicist-joshua-spitz-receives-2023-experimental-physics-in.html Advancing Cosmic Ray Research: Cutting-edge technique to unveil historic cosmic ray rates Wed, 23 Aug 2023 13:04:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/muon-collaboration-explores-uncharted-territory-in-search-of-new.html New measurement of muon's magnetism brings experiment one step closer to a showdown with theory. Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:54:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/physics/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/-18m-to-advance-materials-research-for-quantum-computing--sustai.html New center builds a campus-wide ecosystem for designing and manufacturing materials of the future at U-M while training a more representative workforce. Thu, 29 Jun 2023 20:56:00 +0000