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University of Colorado Boulder faculty and students are primed to get back in action following the Easter restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful atom smasher located near Geneva, Switzerland, after a two-year hiatus.

Professor Emeritus David A. Lind passed away Friday March 6, 2015 at the age of 96.David earned a B.S. in Physics from the University of Washington in 1940, and a Ph.D. in Physics from CalTech in 1948. He joined the faculty of the University of

Once again, the University of Colorado Department of Physics earned top rankings from the U.S. News & World Report. The rankings were announced in early March 2015. CU Boulder's Department of Physics was declared the top school in the

Congratulations to Professor Noah Finkelstein, who was named CU's first ever Timmerhaus Teaching Ambassador.  The announcement was mad on March 4, 2015. This new outreach program is designed to tap educators to promote discussion of teaching

Congratulations to the NASA MMS Team, led by CU Physics Professor Marty Goldman who launched the NASA Magnetosphere Multiscale Mission (MMS). The Mission launched from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas V rocket on Thursday, March 12.The MMS

Congratulations to the PhET Interactive Simulations team, who took home one of two prizes from the Wharton-QS Stars Awards 2014: Reimagine Education. The PhET Simulation project will share a $50,000 price with PaGamO, the world's first multi-

Congratulations to Professor Leo Radzihovsky, who was recently named a 2014 Simons Foundation Investigator. The award was announced in July. According to the Foundation Web site, "The Simons Investigators program provides a stable

Congratulations to Professor Shijie Zhong, who was recently elected a 2014 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Dr. Zhong was recognized, "for fundamental, profound, and unselfish contributions to advancing the understanding of the dynamics of

Congratulations to Physics Professor and JILA Fellow Deborah Jin, who earned the prestigious 2014 Isaac Newton Medal by the Institute of Physics. The award was announced on Tuesday, July 1, 2014.The Institute of Physics is a leading international

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Loren Hough who joined three other University of Colorado researchers in the 2014 class of Boettcher Investigator in the Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Program.According to the news release, each Investigator