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      1. The Hunt for Dark Matter Continues: PandaX Reaches World’s Best Sensitivity
      2. Stars Burning Strangely Make Life in the Multiverse More Likely
      3. Physics Professor Gordon Kane Awarded 2017 APS J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
      4. U-M Astrophysicist Katherine Freese Explains the Search for the Universe’s ‘Dark Stars’
      5. New Dwarf Planet Solar System’s 2nd Most Distant
      6. Physicist David Gerdes and Team Find New Dwarf Planet In Our Solar System
      7. Professor Keith Riles – Member of LIGO Team
      8. Researchers Invent New Material that can Switch Between Being Hard and Soft
      9. The 2017 Physics Commencement Live Event
      10. Physics Professors Receive MURI Grant
      11. Alec Josaitis Recently Awarded International Institute and Rackham Graduate School Individual Research Fellowship
      12. Dr. Priyashree Roy Earns 2016 Jefferson Science Associates (JSA) Thesis Prize
      13. LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves for Third Time
      14. U-M Physics Alum Alex Nitz Helps Detect Colliding Black Holes in Space
      15. Professor Henriette Elvang Selected for a College of Literature, Science, and Arts John Dewey Award
      16. Professor Gordon Kane Quoted in "Yearning for New Physics at CERN, in a Post-Higgs Way"
      17. Professor Rachel Goldman and Team Develop Technique which Could Boost Efficiency of LED Lighting by 50 Percent and May Pave the Way for Invisibility Cloaking Devices
      18. Dark Energy Survey reveals most accurate measurement of dark matter structure in the universe
      19. Professor David Gerdes Featured in USA Today Solar Eclipse Article
      20. U-M Physics Research Fellow Bachana Lomsadze and Professor Steven Cundiff Develop Novel Spectroscopy Technique that Could Revolutionize Chemical Detection
      21. Kip S. Thorne, Winner of 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, Has U-M Physics Connections
      22. LIGO and Virgo Make First Detection of Gravitational Waves Produced By Colliding Neutron Stars
      23. Leinweber Foundation Gives $8M for Physics Center in U-M Department of Physics
      24. Four U-M Physics Faculty Named Fellows
      25. Michigan Fireball Meteor Registers As Quake: Astrophysicist David Gerdes Quoted
      26. Professor Fred Adams Quoted in Science News Article
      27. A Modern Rutherford Experiment: Scientists Use Known Energy Neutrinos to Study Nucleus
      28. It's Givin' Me Excitations: U-M Study Uncovers First Steps of Photosynthesis
      29. UM Astrophysicist David Gerdes and Team in the Hunt for Planet 9
      30. U-M Physics Professor Franco Nori Makes 2017 Highly Cited Researchers List
      31. U-M Society of Physics Students Talk STEM and More
      32. The 2018 Physics Commencement Live Event
      33. Professor Timothy McKay Reveals His Science Journey in Recent Podcast
      34. Physics Students Tali Khain and Noah McNeal Awarded Goldwater Scholarships
      35. Homer A. Neal 1942-2018
      36. The Higgs Boson Reveals Its Love for the Top Quark
      37. Physics Rev E Celebrates 'Milestone Articles' of Physics Faculty
      38. Physics Graduate Benjamin Isaacoff Awarded Optical Society of America's Guenther Congressional Fellowship
      39. Professor Katherine Freese and Team's Hunt for Dark Matter Turns to Ancient Minerals
      40. Professor Benjamin Safdi Awarded DOE’s Early Career Award
      41. Professor Christine Aidala Serves on National Academy Committee Endorsing Science Case for Electron-Ion Collider
      42. U-M Physicist Lu Li Cracks Code on Material that Works as Both Conductor, Insulator
      43. U-M Physicist Wins Nobel Prize
      44. New Physics Faculty Member Dominika Zgid
      45. Astrophysicist Katherine Freese Quoted in Astronomy Magazine
      46. Physicist Jennifer Ogilvie and Team Are Shedding New Light on Photosynthesis
      47. Professors Hui Deng and Mack Kira Named 2019 Fellows of the Optical Society
      48. Four Physics Faculty Named 2018 Fellows of the American Physical Society
      49. Four Physics Faculty Awarded American Physical Society Honors
      50. Gas-Detecting Laser Device Gets an Upgrade
      51. U-M Physicists Roberto Merlin, Meredith Henstridge and Team Develop Small Device that Bends Light to Generate New Radiation
      52. Physicist Steven Cundiff Elected as Fellow of AAAS
      53. Observing the Dance of Ten Million Quantum Dots
      54. Physicist Mark Newman's Scientific Cartogram Maps Featured in Washington Post
      55. U-M Physics Professor Tim McKay Developed Coaching Software to Help Students
      56. Physicist Lu Li and Team First to Uncover Rotational Symmetry Breaking in Magnetic Property of Unconventional Superconductor
      57. 11 Surprising Predictions for 2017 From Some of The Biggest Names In Science
      58. New Metamaterial Can Switch from Hard to Soft—And Back Again
      59. Physicist Michal Zochowski Collaborates with LSA Professor Sara Aton for ‘The Science of Sleep’
      60. Next-Gen Dark Matter Detector in a Race to Finish Line
      61. Physicist Roberto Merlin Selected as 2017 OSA Lippincott Award Recipient
      62. Michigan at the March for Science
      63. Physics Alum Larry Curtiss and Faculty Advisors Devised Contraption That Lead to Fiber Optics
      64. Michigan Physics Welcomes LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow Camille Avestruz
      65. Support Michigan Physics on Giving Blueday!
      66. Physicist Timothy Chupp Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
      67. U-M Physics Senior Noah McNeal Awarded Marshall Scholarship
      68. Astrophysicist Katherine Freese and Colleague’s Latest Theory About Dark Stars Made Astronomy Magazine's Cover Story
      69. First Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Fellows Named by Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics
      70. Physics Graduate Student Awarded 2018-2019 Rackham International Student Fellowship
      71. Professor David Gerdes Named Next Physics Department Chair
      72. Three U-M Physicists Make Highly Cited Researchers 2018 List
      73. State of Michigan Governor Declares February 28, 2019: Chirped Pulse Amplification Day
      74. Physicist Dragan Huterer Receives Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
      75. Physicist Sharon Glotzer Elected to National Academy of Engineering
      76. Professor Rachel Goldman Elected Vice Chair of Division of Materials Physics
      77. Physicist Liuyan Zhao Awarded NSF CAREER Award
      78. Physicist Henriette Elvang Awarded Thurnau Professorship
      79. Physics Senior Sophie Barterian Earns Prestigious Luce Scholarship
      80. Electric Dipole Moments and the Search for the Origin of Matter
      81. Three Physics Graduate Students Named Recipients of 2019-2020 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
      82. Professor Christine Aidala receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Italy
      83. Professor August Evrard's Problem Roulette Tool Recently Awarded Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize
      84. Five U-M Physics Faculty Recently Promoted
      85. Professor Steven Cundiff Discusses Quantum Information Science at the White House
      86. Professor Stephen Forrest named Henry Russel Lecturer for 2020
      87. Physicist Roy Clarke and International Team Devise Way to Show How Common Elements Can Make a More Energy-Secure Future
      88. Professor Jens-Christian Meiners Receives Grant to Tackle the Bends
      89. Graduate Student Summer Fellows Named by Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics
      90. Professor Christine Aidala Wins Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
      91. U-M Physics Professor Wins Fundamental Physics Innovation Award
      92. 2019 U-M Physics Graduate Wins American Physical Society LeRoy Apker Award
      93. Pushing boundaries: Nobel prize winner on science literacy and lasers
      94. DESI opens its 5,000 eyes to capture the colors of the cosmos
      95. Team at U-M Sheds Light on New Electromagnetic Ordering
      96. LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector Moved Nearly a Mile Underground
      97. Support Michigan Physics on Giving Blueday
      98. Six U-M Physics Students Awarded Competitive National Fellowships
      99. Professor Liuyan Zhao Wins Prestigious Air Force Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Award
      100. Two Graduate Students Awarded Prestigious Department of Energy Fellowships
      101. Electron-Ion Collider, a New Nuclear Physics Facility, to Be Built at Brookhaven National Laboratory
      102. Physicist David Gerdes Quoted in Michigan News Article Regarding How COVID-19 Disrupts Research Projects
      103. Physicist Ben Safdi and Research Team Provide Another Twist in the Dark Matter Story
      104. U-M Physics Faculty Member Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
      105. Professor Xiaoming Mao Awarded $7.5M Grant to Bring Metamaterial to Life
      106. Now Complete, Telescope Instrument is Poised to Begin Its Search for Answers About Dark Energy
      107. Celebrating Our Undergraduate Awardees
      108. Celebrating Our Graduate Awardees
      109. U-M Senior’s COVID-19 Data Model Reaches CDC
      110. Physics Grad Student Rory Fitzpatrick and Professor Josh Spitz Shed Light on Electron Neutrino Interactions
      111. Professors Bjoern Penning and Marcelle Soares-Santos Highlighted in Physics Today Article
      112. U-M Physics Awarded $7.1 Million on Project to Upgrade the ATLAS Experiment
      113. When Dancers and Aliens Overlap
      114. Physicist David Lubensky and Team Determine Stress Fibers Help Cells Keep Their Shape—and May Also Regulate Size, During Development
      115. "Physics: A Resounding Legacy" - A Tribute to Patron Norman E. Barnett
      116. Physics Professor Joshua Spitz, Graduate Student Johnathon Jordan, and Research Team Propose Using Ancient Minerals from Deep within Earth’s Crust to Measure Cosmic Radiation
      117. U-M Physics Professors Byron Roe and Joshua Spitz Part of Collaboration to Search for New Physics
      118. Physics Grad Student Christopher Dessert Part of Team Researching X-Rays from Neutron Stars Which Could Lead to Discovery of New Particle
      119. Assistant Professor Liuyan Zhao Awarded a Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship
      120. Assistant Professor Marcelle Soares-Santos Named 2021 Cottrell Scholar
      121. U-M Physicists Part of Study that Finds Unexpected Antimatter Asymmetry in the Proton
      122. Physics Graduate Student Kevin Napier is Lead Author on New Paper Casting Doubt on ‘Planet Nine’
      123. Physics Undergraduate Jiani Fei Proposes Solution to Quantum Field Theory Problem
      124. Physicists Hui Deng, Steve Forrest, and Research Team Discover “Egg Carton” Quantum Dot Array Could Lead to Ultralow Power Devices
      125. U-M Physics Group Led by Professor Tim Chupp Joins in Announcement of Stronger Evidence of New Physics Revealed by Fermilab's Muon g-2 Experiment
      126. U-M Physics Professors Roberto Merlin, Gregory Tarlé, and Graduate Student Noah Green Help Create Novel Optical Physics Method to Measure the Expansion of the Universe
      127. Physicist Christine Aidala Featured in LSA Magazine’s Spring 2021 Edition
      128. Dr. Melissa Hutcheson, Professor Myron Campbell and Research Team Find Possible Deviation from the Standard Model of Physics
      129. U-M Physics Professor Lu Li, Dr. Kuan-Wen Chen, Dr. Ziji Xiang and Research Teams Reveal a New State of Matter in Kondo Insulator
      130. Physicist Jennifer Ogilvie, Assistant Research Scientist Yin Song, and Researchers Trace Path of Light in Photosynthesis
      131. Successful Start of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, Its ‘Eyes’ Designed by U-M Physicist Gregory Tarlé and Research Team
      132. Dark Energy Survey Releases Most Precise Look at Universe's Evolution
      133. Celebrating our 2021 Graduate Awardees!
      134. Physics Collegiate Fellow Eric Spanton Talks ‘Weird Science’
      135. An Inconstant Hubble Constant? U-M Research Suggests Fix to Cosmological Cornerstone
      136. ATLAS Provided the First Observation of the Triboson WWW Process
      137. 1985 Nobel laureate Klaus von Klitzing gives 29th annual Ta-You Wu lecture
      138. The Wow Moment, Remote
      139. MicroBooNE Experiment’s First Results Show No Hint of a Sterile Neutrino
      140. Magnets with a Twist: U-M Physics Researchers Liuyan Zhao and Her Team Engineer Magnetic Complexity into Atomically Thin Magnets
      141. Dr. Melissa Hutcheson Wins APS Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics
      142. UM Physicists Michael Schubnell, Gregory Tarlé and Team Part of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Which Creates Largest 3D Map of the Cosmos
      143. Michigan Physics graduate Students Make Key Contributions to Experimental Results
      144. U-M Physics Researcher Co-Chairs Ballistic Missile Defense Report
      145. Congratulations to Physicist David Lubensky Awarded a 2022 Simons Fellowship
      146. Please Donate Today (March 17) to the Undergraduate Support Fund for Giving Blueday!
      147. What’s Inside a Black Hole? U-M Physicist Enrico Rinaldi Uses Quantum Computing, Machine Learning to Find Out
      148. Dr. Sangmin Choi Recipient of Honorable Mention in Rackham’s 2021 ProQuest Dissertation Awards
      149. U-M Physics Alum Lia Merminga Appointed Director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
      150. Physics and Astronomy Senior Anna Simpson One of Five Students to Win Prestigious 2022 Goldwater Scholarship!
      151. Congratulations to Mark Newman on His Election to the Royal Society
      152. U-M Renames Randall Laboratory Addition After Pioneering Physicist Homer A. Neal
      153. Congratulations to Anna Simpson, U-M's 2022 Astronaut Scholar!
      154. Michigan Physics Welcomes Jalen Rose Leadership Academy Scholars to Ann Arbor Campus
      155. Successful Startup of Particle Detector Aims to Pin Down Dark Matter
      156. U-M Researchers Untangle the Physics of High-Temperature Superconductors
      157. Live From the International Space Station, It’s Saturday Morning Physics
      158. A team of researchers—Robert McGehee and Aaron Pierce of U-M Physics and Gilly Elor of Johannes Gutenberg University—proposed a new candidate for dark matter: HYPER, or “HighlY Interactive ParticlE Relics.”
      159. A Special Thank You to Navy Captain Josh Cassada and to NASA!
      160. Physicist Gregory Tarlé and Team, Find First Observational Evidence Linking Black Holes to Dark Energy
      161. Support Michigan Physics on Giving Blueday!
      162. $18M to advance materials research for quantum computing, sustainable plastics and more
      163. Michigan Physicists and Collaborators New Muon Result Explores Uncharted Territory in Search for New Physics
      164. U-M Physicist Joshua Spitz Receives 2023 Experimental Physics Investigator Award
      165. The Universe Caught Suppressing Cosmic Structure Growth
      166. U-M Collaboration to Receive DOE Grant to Diversify Physics
      167. Five Physics Researchers From U-M Named American Physical Society Fellows
      168. Thank You for Your Help Supporting Women in Physics!
      169. It Happened at Michigan — ‘You’ve got to be excellent’
      170. Physics Student Sanil Mittal awarded STEM Research Career Award!
      171. U-M Astronomer: Get to the path of April's total solar eclipse
      172. Thank You for Supporting Michigan Physics on Giving Blueday!
      173. U-M Physics Department Franco Nori Named 2024 Charles Hard Townes Medal Recipient
      174. U-M Anatol Rapoport Distinguished University Professor of Physics Mark Newman Named 2024 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize Recipient
      175. A New Measurement of the Expansion History of the Universe
      176. Physics Ph.D. Candidate and Professor Honored with Willie Hobbs Moore Awards
      177. U-M study: Using ‘tweezers’ to control active fluids
      178. Muscle machine: How water controls the speed of muscle contraction
      179. LZ experiment sets new record in search for dark matter
      180. Mining for Neutrinos, and for Cosmic Answers - Featuring U-M Alumni Bryan Ramson
      181. U-M Researcher Greg Tarlé and Colleagues Find Mounting Evidence for Dark Energy from Black Holes
      182. Physics Chair David Gerdes Named Dean of CWRU's College of Arts and Sciences
      183. New DESI results weigh in on gravity
      184. “Giving Tuesday” Fundraiser
      185. Applied Physics Graduate Student, Christopher Ayala, Named Winner of NSBP-NSHP 2024 Conference Oral Presentation Award
      186. Not So Simple Machines: Cracking the Code for Materials That Can Learn
      187. Physics Professor Liuyan Zhao Receives PECASE Award
      188. Physics Professor Dragan Huterer Receives Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award
      189. Getting the Most Out of Cosmic Maps - U-M research findings featuring researcher Minh Nguyen
      190. Physics Professor Gus Evrard named AAS Fellow for 2025
      191. Physics Assistant Professor Camille Avestruz selected as 2025 Cottrell Scholar
      192. Giving Blueday 2025
      193. Physics Professor Christine Aidala Honored with 2025 Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award
      194. Revealing a Natural Strategy for Making 'Superior' Materials - U-M Research Findings Featuring Physicist Xiaoming Mao and Team
      195. U-M Physics Alum and Nobel Laureate Samuel Ting Honored with 2025 Basic Science Lifetime Award
      196. U-M Physicists Among Winners of Prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
      197. How Origami Could Unlock a New Class of Materials
      198. How Origami Could Unlock a New Class of Materials
      199. Scientists achieve record precision probing a particle where the universe may be hiding its secrets
      200. ‘A more versatile and powerful foundation for future photonic technologies’
      201. Researchers Capture Nanoparticle Organizations to Forge New Materials
      202. Dark energy-filled black holes plus DESI data give neutrino masses that make sense
      203. How an in-between quantum state could boost future technologies
      204. LSA Physicists Xiaoming Mao and Liuyan Zhao Named American Physical Society Fellows
      205. Physicist Xiaoming Mao and Researchers Find Metamaterial Stifle Vibrations with Intentional Complexity
      206. The year a-flied physics lit up the MLB
      207. ‘Really Bizarre and Exciting’: U-M Physicist Lu Li and Team Find Quantum Oscillations Coming from Inside
      208. MicroBooNE experiment finds no evidence for the long-sought ‘sterile neutrino’
      209. To get lifelike movement from synthetic materials, physics researchers can embrace chaos
      210. A ‘new era’ in cosmology: Dark Energy Survey releases new analysis of how the universe expands
      211. Norman M. Leff Assistant Professor Na Hyun Jo Selected as 2026 Cottrell Scholar
      212. Empowering the Next Generation: Thomas Schwarz Receives University’s Highest Teaching Honor
      213. Physicist Mark Newman awarded the 2026 John von Neumann Prize!
      214. DESI completes planned 3D map of the universe, is still exploring
      215. Physics Professor Tim Chupp and Students Share the 2026 Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics
      216. U-M Physicist Lu Li Receives Prestigious 2026 National Brown Investigator Award
      217. U-M’s Stephen Forrest elected Royal Society Fellow
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      1. The Hunt for Dark Matter Continues: PandaX Reaches World’s Best Sensitivity
      2. Stars Burning Strangely Make Life in the Multiverse More Likely
      3. Physics Professor Gordon Kane Awarded 2017 APS J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
      4. U-M Astrophysicist Katherine Freese Explains the Search for the Universe’s ‘Dark Stars’
      5. New Dwarf Planet Solar System’s 2nd Most Distant
      6. Physicist David Gerdes and Team Find New Dwarf Planet In Our Solar System
      7. Professor Keith Riles – Member of LIGO Team
      8. Researchers Invent New Material that can Switch Between Being Hard and Soft
      9. The 2017 Physics Commencement Live Event
      10. Physics Professors Receive MURI Grant
      11. Alec Josaitis Recently Awarded International Institute and Rackham Graduate School Individual Research Fellowship
      12. Dr. Priyashree Roy Earns 2016 Jefferson Science Associates (JSA) Thesis Prize
      13. LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves for Third Time
      14. U-M Physics Alum Alex Nitz Helps Detect Colliding Black Holes in Space
      15. Professor Henriette Elvang Selected for a College of Literature, Science, and Arts John Dewey Award
      16. Professor Gordon Kane Quoted in "Yearning for New Physics at CERN, in a Post-Higgs Way"
      17. Professor Rachel Goldman and Team Develop Technique which Could Boost Efficiency of LED Lighting by 50 Percent and May Pave the Way for Invisibility Cloaking Devices
      18. Dark Energy Survey reveals most accurate measurement of dark matter structure in the universe
      19. Professor David Gerdes Featured in USA Today Solar Eclipse Article
      20. U-M Physics Research Fellow Bachana Lomsadze and Professor Steven Cundiff Develop Novel Spectroscopy Technique that Could Revolutionize Chemical Detection
      21. Kip S. Thorne, Winner of 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, Has U-M Physics Connections
      22. LIGO and Virgo Make First Detection of Gravitational Waves Produced By Colliding Neutron Stars
      23. Leinweber Foundation Gives $8M for Physics Center in U-M Department of Physics
      24. Four U-M Physics Faculty Named Fellows
      25. Michigan Fireball Meteor Registers As Quake: Astrophysicist David Gerdes Quoted
      26. Professor Fred Adams Quoted in Science News Article
      27. A Modern Rutherford Experiment: Scientists Use Known Energy Neutrinos to Study Nucleus
      28. It's Givin' Me Excitations: U-M Study Uncovers First Steps of Photosynthesis
      29. UM Astrophysicist David Gerdes and Team in the Hunt for Planet 9
      30. U-M Physics Professor Franco Nori Makes 2017 Highly Cited Researchers List
      31. U-M Society of Physics Students Talk STEM and More
      32. The 2018 Physics Commencement Live Event
      33. Professor Timothy McKay Reveals His Science Journey in Recent Podcast
      34. Physics Students Tali Khain and Noah McNeal Awarded Goldwater Scholarships
      35. Homer A. Neal 1942-2018
      36. The Higgs Boson Reveals Its Love for the Top Quark
      37. Physics Rev E Celebrates 'Milestone Articles' of Physics Faculty
      38. Physics Graduate Benjamin Isaacoff Awarded Optical Society of America's Guenther Congressional Fellowship
      39. Professor Katherine Freese and Team's Hunt for Dark Matter Turns to Ancient Minerals
      40. Professor Benjamin Safdi Awarded DOE’s Early Career Award
      41. Professor Christine Aidala Serves on National Academy Committee Endorsing Science Case for Electron-Ion Collider
      42. U-M Physicist Lu Li Cracks Code on Material that Works as Both Conductor, Insulator
      43. U-M Physicist Wins Nobel Prize
      44. New Physics Faculty Member Dominika Zgid
      45. Astrophysicist Katherine Freese Quoted in Astronomy Magazine
      46. Physicist Jennifer Ogilvie and Team Are Shedding New Light on Photosynthesis
      47. Professors Hui Deng and Mack Kira Named 2019 Fellows of the Optical Society
      48. Four Physics Faculty Named 2018 Fellows of the American Physical Society
      49. Four Physics Faculty Awarded American Physical Society Honors
      50. Gas-Detecting Laser Device Gets an Upgrade
      51. U-M Physicists Roberto Merlin, Meredith Henstridge and Team Develop Small Device that Bends Light to Generate New Radiation
      52. Physicist Steven Cundiff Elected as Fellow of AAAS
      53. Observing the Dance of Ten Million Quantum Dots
      54. Physicist Mark Newman's Scientific Cartogram Maps Featured in Washington Post
      55. U-M Physics Professor Tim McKay Developed Coaching Software to Help Students
      56. Physicist Lu Li and Team First to Uncover Rotational Symmetry Breaking in Magnetic Property of Unconventional Superconductor
      57. 11 Surprising Predictions for 2017 From Some of The Biggest Names In Science
      58. New Metamaterial Can Switch from Hard to Soft—And Back Again
      59. Physicist Michal Zochowski Collaborates with LSA Professor Sara Aton for ‘The Science of Sleep’
      60. Next-Gen Dark Matter Detector in a Race to Finish Line
      61. Physicist Roberto Merlin Selected as 2017 OSA Lippincott Award Recipient
      62. Michigan at the March for Science
      63. Physics Alum Larry Curtiss and Faculty Advisors Devised Contraption That Lead to Fiber Optics
      64. Michigan Physics Welcomes LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow Camille Avestruz
      65. Support Michigan Physics on Giving Blueday!
      66. Physicist Timothy Chupp Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
      67. U-M Physics Senior Noah McNeal Awarded Marshall Scholarship
      68. Astrophysicist Katherine Freese and Colleague’s Latest Theory About Dark Stars Made Astronomy Magazine's Cover Story
      69. First Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Fellows Named by Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics
      70. Physics Graduate Student Awarded 2018-2019 Rackham International Student Fellowship
      71. Professor David Gerdes Named Next Physics Department Chair
      72. Three U-M Physicists Make Highly Cited Researchers 2018 List
      73. State of Michigan Governor Declares February 28, 2019: Chirped Pulse Amplification Day
      74. Physicist Dragan Huterer Receives Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
      75. Physicist Sharon Glotzer Elected to National Academy of Engineering
      76. Professor Rachel Goldman Elected Vice Chair of Division of Materials Physics
      77. Physicist Liuyan Zhao Awarded NSF CAREER Award
      78. Physicist Henriette Elvang Awarded Thurnau Professorship
      79. Physics Senior Sophie Barterian Earns Prestigious Luce Scholarship
      80. Electric Dipole Moments and the Search for the Origin of Matter
      81. Three Physics Graduate Students Named Recipients of 2019-2020 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
      82. Professor Christine Aidala receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Italy
      83. Professor August Evrard's Problem Roulette Tool Recently Awarded Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize
      84. Five U-M Physics Faculty Recently Promoted
      85. Professor Steven Cundiff Discusses Quantum Information Science at the White House
      86. Professor Stephen Forrest named Henry Russel Lecturer for 2020
      87. Physicist Roy Clarke and International Team Devise Way to Show How Common Elements Can Make a More Energy-Secure Future
      88. Professor Jens-Christian Meiners Receives Grant to Tackle the Bends
      89. Graduate Student Summer Fellows Named by Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics
      90. Professor Christine Aidala Wins Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
      91. U-M Physics Professor Wins Fundamental Physics Innovation Award
      92. 2019 U-M Physics Graduate Wins American Physical Society LeRoy Apker Award
      93. Pushing boundaries: Nobel prize winner on science literacy and lasers
      94. DESI opens its 5,000 eyes to capture the colors of the cosmos
      95. Team at U-M Sheds Light on New Electromagnetic Ordering
      96. LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector Moved Nearly a Mile Underground
      97. Support Michigan Physics on Giving Blueday
      98. Six U-M Physics Students Awarded Competitive National Fellowships
      99. Professor Liuyan Zhao Wins Prestigious Air Force Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Award
      100. Two Graduate Students Awarded Prestigious Department of Energy Fellowships
      101. Electron-Ion Collider, a New Nuclear Physics Facility, to Be Built at Brookhaven National Laboratory
      102. Physicist David Gerdes Quoted in Michigan News Article Regarding How COVID-19 Disrupts Research Projects
      103. Physicist Ben Safdi and Research Team Provide Another Twist in the Dark Matter Story
      104. U-M Physics Faculty Member Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
      105. Professor Xiaoming Mao Awarded $7.5M Grant to Bring Metamaterial to Life
      106. Now Complete, Telescope Instrument is Poised to Begin Its Search for Answers About Dark Energy
      107. Celebrating Our Undergraduate Awardees
      108. Celebrating Our Graduate Awardees
      109. U-M Senior’s COVID-19 Data Model Reaches CDC
      110. Physics Grad Student Rory Fitzpatrick and Professor Josh Spitz Shed Light on Electron Neutrino Interactions
      111. Professors Bjoern Penning and Marcelle Soares-Santos Highlighted in Physics Today Article
      112. U-M Physics Awarded $7.1 Million on Project to Upgrade the ATLAS Experiment
      113. When Dancers and Aliens Overlap
      114. Physicist David Lubensky and Team Determine Stress Fibers Help Cells Keep Their Shape—and May Also Regulate Size, During Development
      115. "Physics: A Resounding Legacy" - A Tribute to Patron Norman E. Barnett
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