Research, teaching and public engagement in Physics at UW–Madison
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 in the Department of Physics just four short years ago, Joshua Weber has already made his mark, impressing both his colleagues and the …
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 a Lead Teaching Mentor. The L&S Teaching Mentors are the heart of our college level Teaching Assistant (TA) Trainings. They are exceptionally passionate …
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 education, and aerospace outreach across the state. These awards strengthen Wisconsin’s STEM workforce pipeline through hands-on research, outreach programming, academic advancement, and national …
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 Awards, recognizing their strengths and commitment surrounding the craft of teaching. UW–Madison employs over 2,400 teaching assistants (TAs) across a wide range of …
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 referees who have been asked to review one or more papers in the last twelve months. Like Fellowship in the APS, this is …
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 in their careers and stimulate cutting-edge research. This award will fund the Song Lab’s work on exploring novel superconductors based on two-dimensional (2D) …
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 the ninth Biennial John Stewart Bell Prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and Their Applications. He shares the prize with …
Mark Saffman, the Johannes Rydberg Professor of Physics and director of the Wisconsin Quantum Institute, won the American Physical Society’s 2026 Norman F. Ramsey Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, and in Precision Tests of Fundamental Laws and Symmetries. The Ramsey prize recognizes outstanding accomplishments in the two fields of Norman Ramsey: atomic, molecular, …