Departmental News
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UPTON, N.Y. — October 14, 2025 — An international team of researchers has directly measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) — the superhot primordial matter that filled the universe just millionths of a second after the Big Bang. Among the leaders of this…
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US Department of Energy grants graduate student research award (SCGSR) to Physics PhD student Maci Kesler at ×ÔοÊÓƵ
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×ÔοÊÓƵ Physics alumna Dr. Dekrayat Almaalol receives 2024 Leona Woods Lectureship Award from Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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×ÔοÊÓƵ Department of Physics hosts eclipse planetarium shows and more.
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Dr. Lavrentovich, professor of Physics at ×ÔοÊÓƵ, and collaborators publish an article in Science.
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Did you know we have a planetarium? Well, we do. Smith Hall at ×ÔοÊÓƵ is home to this versatile room that can be used for classes, events and can even replicate an easier-to-see version of the night sky.
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The ×ÔοÊÓƵ Department of Physics is proud to welcome our newest faculty member, Dr. Zhangbu Xu.
Dr. Michael Strickland's group will participate in a new Topical Theory Collaboration funded by DOE’s Office of Nuclear Physics to explore the behavior of heavy flavor particles. The collaboration will receive $2.5 Million from the DOE Office of Science, Office of Nuclear…
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Neutron stars are some of the densest objects in the universe, and as such, the conditions at the cores of these extreme objects are impossible to reproduce on Earth. However, we can use data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo…