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Jun Ye, fellow of NIST and JILA and Monroe Endowed Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder, has won the 2026 Wolf Prize in Physics along with Immanuel Bloch (Max Planck Institute), the Wolf Foundation announced on October 1.
In an opinion piece for CERN, Associate Professor Keith Ulmer explores how artificial intelligence could help physicists uncover previously unseen phenomena in particle collision data.
Jerry Leigh, who was hired by Frank Oppenheimer in 1967 and went on to devote 45 years to the Department of Physics’ undergraduate teaching laboratories, passed away in July 2025.
Six physics faculty from CU Boulder are leading or contributing to new projects awarded more than $1.6 million in highly competitive U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission grants, the agency announced on July 22.
Joey Pontiff (Phys’26) is taking his physics and political science education to the nation’s capital this summer, working for the Commission on Quantum Primacy — a national initiative supporting U.S. leadership in quantum technologies.
Stephen Halley White, a University of Colorado Boulder alumnus and pioneering biophysicist, passed away on May 31, 2026. White earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from CU Boulder in 1963. As an undergraduate, he held
Physics alumnus Alexander Aeppli (PhDPhys’25) is the recipient of this year’s Deborah Jin Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research, a national honor awarded by the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
New research led by Professors and JILA Fellows Ana Maria Rey and James Thompson published in Physical Review X proposes a new entangled state for atoms in a quantum sensor. The team’s methods can be created quickly, and more importantly, faster as the system gets larger, making them practical for scaling quantum sensors.
Margaret Murnane is a new honorary member of Optica — the most distinguished membership bestowed by the international society dedicated to optics and photonics.
Recent PhD graduate Hanqing Zhao was awarded the prestigious 2025 Glenn H. Brown Prize from the International Liquid Crystal Society (ILCS). The award is presented to recent doctoral graduates whose theses demonstrate an “outstanding contribution to the science of liquid crystals.”