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In search of new particles like the Higgs Boson
Could there be more particles like the Higgs boson? For the first time, the CMS experiment has searched for the decay of the Higgs boson into two more Higgs-boson-like particles with unequal…
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Josh Weber earns L&S Academic Staff Teaching Excellence Award
Congrats to Josh Weber for earning a College of Letters & Science Academic Staff Teaching Excellence Award! Sometimes, the path to teaching excellence is swift and measured. Despite joining the instructional team…
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Sam Kramer, Benjamin Beyer named L&S Teaching Mentors
This post is adapted from the L&S teaching mentor website L&S announced their 2026 Teaching Mentors, including physics PhD students Sam Kramer and Benjamin Beyer. Kramer earned the additional honor of being named…
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Congrats, Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium award winners!
The Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium (WSGC) recently announced its 2026 Spring Awardees, including several UW–Madison physics students. WSGC award winners are Wisconsin students, educators, faculty, and research teams conducting NASA-aligned research, STEM…
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Lekshmi Thulasidharan earns campus TA award
This post is modified from one posted by the Graduate School Thirty-two exceptional graduate students, including physics PhD student Lekshmi Thulasidharan, have been selected as recipients of the 2025-26 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant…
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Congratulations to Prof. Wu on her retirement!
Congrats to UW–Madison physics Prof. Sau Lan Wu, who announced her retirement effective January 1, 2026. One of the first two women on the physics faculty when she joined as an assistant…
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Theoretical physicist Prof. Charles Goebel has passed away
UW–Madison professor emeritus of physics Charles (Charlie) Goebel passed away February 18, 2026. He was 95. Born, raised, and educated in Illinois, Goebel received a PhD in 1956 from the University of…
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Mark Saffman named “Outstanding Referee” for American Physical Society journals
Congrats to Prof. Mark Saffman on being named a 2026 Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society journals! The highly selective Outstanding Referee program annually recognizes about 150 of the roughly 56,000…
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Dark Energy Survey scientists release new analysis of how the universe expands
The latest results combined weak lensing and galaxy clustering and incorporated four dark energy probes from a single experiment for the first time. This story is amended from one published by Fermilab,…
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Velocity gradients key to explaining large-scale magnetic field structure
All celestial bodies — planets, suns, even entire galaxies — produce magnetic fields, affecting such cosmic processes as the solar wind, high-energy particle transport, and galaxy formation. Small-scale magnetic fields are generally…
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Tiancheng Song earns DOE Early Career award
Professor Tiancheng Song has been selected for an Early Career Research Program (ECRP) award by the U.S. Department of Energy. Established in 2010, this prestigious program aims to support outstanding scientists early…
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Mark Saffman wins Bell Prize
This post is derived from content originally published by the University of Toronto Congrats to Mark Saffman, the Johannes Rydberg Professor of Physics and director of the Wisconsin Quantum Institute, on earning…
