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Update: Due to bad weather, the lunar eclipse

won't be seen in Utah

Sunday, January 20, 2019

Due to forecasted bad weather, it’s highly unlikely that we’ll be able to see the lunar eclipse in Salt Lake City.

Yes, we're disappointed too, but you can still join us on Sunday evening @ 7 p.m. in the James Fletcher Building, Room 101, to view live streaming of the lunar eclipse from elsewhere.

You can also use the link below to watch it at home on your computer:
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2019-january-21

Event	UTC Time (a.m.)	Time in Salt Lake City
Penumbral eclipse begins	Jan. 21 @ 02:36:29	Jan. 20 @ 7:36:29 p.m.
Partial eclipse begins	Jan. 21 @ 03:33:54	Jan. 20 @ 8:33:54 p.m.
Full eclipse begins	Jan. 21 @ 04:41:17	Jan. 20 @ 9:41:17 p.m.
Maximum eclipse	Jan. 21 @ 05:12:14	Jan. 20 @ 10:12:14 p.m.
Full eclipse ends	Jan. 21 @ 05:43:15	Jan. 20 @ 10:43:15 p.m.
Partial eclipse ends	Jan. 21 @ 06:50:39	Jan. 20 @ 11:50:39 p.m.
Penumbral eclipse ends	Jan. 21 @ 07:48:02	Jan. 21 @ 12:48:02 a.m.

U Develops First Dark Sky Studies Minor in the U.S.

The W. M. Keck Foundation has awarded $250,000 to the University of Utah to establish a new undergraduate minor in dark sky studies, the first of its kind in the United States. Dark sky studies is an emerging field that explores the impacts of artificial light at night and the loss of our night skies through a broad range of disciplines. Housed in the College of Architecture + Planning, the minor is open to all students across the university who will explore issues through the lens of science, including in public health, urban planning, engineering, and the humanities, from religion to history and philosophy.

Spintronics "Miracle Material" Put to the Test

In 2017, University of Utah physicist Valy Vardeny called perovskite a “miracle material” for an emerging field of next-generation electronics, called spintronics, and he’s standing by that assertion. In a paper published today in Nature Communications, Vardeny, along with Jingying Wang, Dali Sun (now at North Carolina State University), and colleagues present two devices built using perovskite to demonstrate the material’s potential in spintronic systems. Its properties, Vardeny says, bring the dream of a spintronic transistor one step closer to reality.

U Physics Students Win National Recognition

For the second year in a row, the U's chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) has won an Outstanding Chapter Award from the SPS National Office.