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Stephanie McNamara, geophysics graduate student, is conducting research with Nathalie Vriend, associate professor at the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at CU Boulder. Among other questions, the lab explores how dunes evolve over time.
Jun Ye and collaborator Lilliam Ambroggio (CU Anschutz) have been awarded a 2025 AB Nexus seed grant for their project "Using Quantum Sensing to Detect Pneumonia and Asthma in Children."
JaeBeom Park (Image Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory) Postdoctoral Associate JaeBeom Park was recently awarded the Sambamurti Memorial Lectureship from Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) for his work on
The Department of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder is thrilled to welcome Ivy Tan as a new Assistant Professor of Physics this fall. A geophysicist with interests in climate and atmospheric physics, Tan’s research is centered on Earth’s clouds, radiation and climate.
Peter Dale Kunz, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Colorado Boulder passed away in January 2025 at the age of 96. Kunz earned his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 1959 and came to Boulder as an acting assistant
This year marked the 25th year of the Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (BSS) which brings advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and lecturers from around the world to CU Boulder for the month of July.
Space Dust Research & Technologies LLC, co-founded by LASP researchers Xu Wang and Mihaly Horanyi, has been awarded one of ten NASA TechLeap Prizes in the Space Technology Payload Challenge for their Electron Beam Dust Mitigation (EBDM) system.
New funding from the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) will support growing demand for the Quantum Scholars program, providing approximately 25 new scholarships for the innovative program.
The Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI) recently held their summer intensive program, bringing 65 advanced graduate students in theoretical high energy physics to Boulder for the month of June. This year’s program focused on topics
Andrew Sapuppo (AeroEngr, EngrPhys’24) shares how his education and research at CU Boulder led to his career as a propulsion systems engineer.