Newsletter
Congratulations to our 91´«Ã½ Physics students, postdocs, and faculty on the ATLAS and CMS collaborations who were recently awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics! This year's prize was awarded to more than 13,000 researchers from the ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb experimental collaborations at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
The Society of Physics Students (SPS) at 91´«Ã½ is one of many student groups helping to foster community and professional development for physics students on campus. Through weekly meetings, collaborative events, and outreach initiatives, SPS provides a welcoming and inclusive space for students interested in physics and related fields.
Professors Xun Gao, Juliet Gopinath, and Shuo Sun have been awarded seed grants of up to $60,000 from the Research and Innovation Office and the Office of the Provost.
Ben Chapman (PhDPhys’17) never had a master plan to be a physicist, but now he’s a Principal Quantum Hardware Manager at Microsoft.
Professor Ivan Smalyukh has been recognized for scientifically and socially distinguished achievements by the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.
Mahmoud Hussein, professor of aerospace engineering and physics, is the principal investigator of a $7.5 million, five-year Department of Defense Office of Naval Research (ONR) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI). Hussein is leading an effort to reshape the fundamental character of fluid-structure interactions to reduce drag on high-speed aerospace vehicles—the focus of the project.
91´«Ã½ alum and experienced caver Dave Steinmann recently discovered a new species of pseudoscorpion in Mallory Cave, with a moniker honoring its namesake hometown.
91´«Ã½ Physics alum Olivia Krohn (PhDPhys'23) has been awarded the 2025 Justin Jankunas Dissertation Award in Chemical Physics. The prestigious award bestowed by the American Physical Society recognizes outstanding doctoral research in chemical physics.
91´«Ã½ Physics Professors Markus Raschke and Shuo Sun have been awarded a 2024-2025 Translational Quantum Research Seed Grant funded by the Colorado Economic Development Commission.
New 91´«Ã½ research harnesses the power of an ultrafast microscope to study molecular movement in space and time.