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Physics PhD student receives Graduate Instrumentation Research Award
July 14, 2021
Funding from the American Physical Society program supports graduate student Yuzhan Zao’s research on silicon detectors for particle physics experiments.
Article by Adam Coogan, Logan Morrison and Professor Profumo: New possibilities for detecting Hawking radiation emitted by primordial black holes
June 21, 2021
Axions could be the fossil of the universe researchers have been waiting for
June 7, 2021
A new study suggests finding the hypothetical particles known as axions could mean finding out for the first time what happened in the universe a second after the Big Bang.
Physics grad student awarded DOE support for research at national lab
May 3, 2021
Eli Nygren, a graduate student in physics at UCSC, is among 78 outstanding U.S. graduate students to receive support from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program.
Physical and Biological Sciences Division honors three prominent alumni
April 28, 2021
PBSci Distinguished Alumni Awards recognize contributions to society by graduate and undergraduate alums.
Physicist Steven Ritz receives Outstanding Faculty Award
January 11, 2021
Physics Professor Steven Ritz has received the 2019–20 Outstanding Faculty Award from the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences.
Steven Ritz stepping down after 10 years as director of particle physics institute
December 21, 2020
Jason Nielsen, professor of physics, will take over as director of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) in the new year.
Direct visualization of quantum dots reveals shape of quantum wave function
November 23, 2020
UCSC researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope to visualize quantum dots in bilayer graphene, an important step toward quantum information technologies.
