The Interstellar Dust Experiment (IDEX) with its door open at LASP.

Dust instrument led by Professor Mih谩ly Hor谩nyi headed for NASA mission

Jan. 12, 2024

A photo of the Gamow Tower

Fall 2023 Student and Postdoc Awards for Teaching and Service

Dec. 22, 2023

Congratulations to the Fall 2023 winners of the Student and Postdoc Awards for Teaching and Service! Teaching Awards Roman Marcarelli: For outstanding contributions to the Physics 2010 and 2020 teaching teams both in labs and in the helproom, over multiple semesters. Donna dePolo: For outstanding contributions to the Physics 1230...

A blue laser beam excites a cube-shaped cloud of strontium atoms.

鈥楾abletop鈥 physics experiments receive major funding, with Jun Ye leading key project

Dec. 15, 2023

In an exciting turn for physics research, four major foundations have announced a collaborative funding effort for 11 pioneering experiments. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Simons Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation have come together, committing a total of $30 million.

Nicholas Jenkins

Graduate student Nicholas Jenkins awarded prestigious SPIE scholarship

Dec. 14, 2023

Physics graduate student Nicholas Jenkins has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Nick Cobb Memorial Scholarship from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

Snow-covered flat iron mountains

Meet some of our Fall 2023 graduates

Dec. 8, 2023

We asked our graduating physics buffs what advice they had for other students, where they are headed after SM调教所, and what they will carry with them into their next chapter.

Portrait of Professor Orit Peleg

SM调教所 Connections - Five questions for Orit Peleg

Dec. 7, 2023

Doughnut-shaped beams of light scatter away from two incredibly small structures with different repeating patterns.

Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn's latest advance in ptychography featured in SM调教所 Boulder Today

Dec. 6, 2023

A new laser-based technique can create images of structures too tiny to view with traditional microscopes, and without damaging them. The approach could help scientists inspect nanoelectronics, including the semiconductors in computer chips.

Student Hannah Scarbrough takes inventory of mechanical and optical kit components used in for experiments during a Quality Assurance of Precision Optics class

Daily Camera: SM调教所 Boulder, FRCC play huge role in advancing quantum industry

Dec. 1, 2023

Anjun Chu

Graduate student Anjun Chu wins prestigious Boeing Quantum Creators Prize

Nov. 17, 2023

Aerial view of SM调教所 Boulder campus with flat irons in background

Joe Berry, Michael McGehee, Michael Toney, and Jun Ye named highly cited researchers

Nov. 16, 2023

Professors Joe Berry, Michael McGehee, Michael Toney, and Jun Ye Physics professors Joseph Berry, Michael McGehee, Michael Toney, and Jun Ye have been named by Clarivate as highly cited researchers in 2023. Researchers earning the designation have 鈥渄emonstrated significant and broad influence in their field(s) of research鈥 according to the...

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