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Assistant Professor Bethany Wilcox has been recognized for her outstanding teaching with two awards from CU Boulder this year. She is the recipient of both the Best Should Teach Award and ASSETT’s Excellence in Teaching with Technology Award in 2023! The Best Should Teach Award recognizes faculty for excellence in...

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The Department of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder is excited to welcome Assistant Professor Xun Gao to the faculty this fall! Professor Gao has also been named an Associate Fellow of JILA and he is very enthusiastic about the collaborative environment between CU Physics and JILA. Professor Gao...

The 2023 TASI participants gather for a group photograph at Farrand Field. Image credit: Veronica Lingo The 39th annual Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics (TASI) was held this summer on the CU Boulder campus. The summer institute is supported by the National Science Foundation and the University...

The 2023 Physics and JILA REU participants with the REU Leadership Team. Image Credit: Keith Hedlund The 2023 REU students participate in lab tours. Image Credit: Christine Morrow Hailing from across the country, 10 exceptional undergraduates joined this summer’s Physics and JILA Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at CU...

The Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics recently concluded its twenty-third summer on the CU Boulder campus. With support from the National Science Foundation and the University of Colorado Boulder, the school brought 80 advanced graduate-level students and postdoctoral fellows and 19 lecturers from around the world to...

The Department of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder welcomes Assistant Professor Yuan Shi to the faculty in August 2023! A theoretical plasma physicist, Professor Shi’s research uncovers the synergy between plasma physics and quantum physics. He studies how magnetic fields change laser-plasma interactions for fusion and photonics applications...

The CU Boulder campus recently hosted the Quantum Materials Synthesis (QMS) Workshop organized by CU Boulder Physics Professor Gang Cao. Supported by the National Science Foundation and the University of Colorado Boulder, the workshop drew over 100 participants including 32 invited speakers. The QMS Workshop brought together physicists, materials scientists,...