News & Events Events View Seminars & Colloquia Oct 26 Tuesday 4pm - 5pm Condensed Matter with Dr Matthew C. Beard, The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Zoom Oct 28 Thursday 4pm - 5pm HEAP Seminar with Dr Juri Smirnov, Ohio State University Zoom Oct 29 Friday 2pm - 3pm Colloquium with Dr Renata Wentzcovitch, Columbia University Fletcher Building - James C. (JFB) and Zoom Nov 04 Thursday 4pm - 5pm HEAP Seminar with Dr Matthew Baumgart, Arizona State University Intermountain Network Scientific CC (INSCC) and Zoom Nov 05 Friday 2pm - 3pm Colloquium with Dr Jeff Dahn, Dalhousie University Fletcher Building - James C. (JFB) and Zoom Swigart Fellowship Program Provides Support for Grad Student Research Ten graduate students in Physics and Astronomy spent the summer conducting research with the support... Read More Joel Brownstein Receives Award for SDSS Work The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has given its 2021 Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD)... Read More Yue Zhao Receives Physics Innovation Award Yue Zhao, assistant professor in Physics and Astronomy, has received a Gordon and Betty Moore... Read More In Memoriam: Emeritus Professor William D. Ohlsen Emeritus Professor William David Ohlsen died peacefully at his home in Salt Lake City on... Read More Alumnus Spotlight: Bert VanderHeiden Bert VanderHeiden Bert VanderHeiden’s (BS Physics ’82, MS Physics ’84 and Ph.D. Physics ‘88) first... Read More Alumnus Spotlight: Jim Hanson Jim Hanson’s (BS Physics ’85) path to the University of Utah and college was different... Read More Summer 2021 Issue of the Spectrum Download the latest issue of the Spectrum. Read More Cutting through noise for better solar cells As society moves towards a renewable energy future, it’s crucial that solar panels convert light... Read More Cyri Dixon Named Outstanding New Advisor of the Year In recognition of her ability to “create, navigate, and graduate” physics students, the University of... Read More New Effort to Map the Universe, Unravel Mysteries of “Dark Energy” A five-year quest to map the universe and unravel the mysteries of dark energy began... Read More Celebrating IceCube’s First Decade of Discovery By IceCube Collaboration It was the beginning of a grand experiment unlike anything the world... Read More Alumni Snapshots: Perry Hacking Dr. Perry Hacking has always loved astronomy, so there was nothing for him to do... Read More Recent News Read All News
