News & Events EventsView Seminars & Colloquia Aug15Monday Fall 2022 House Bill 60 Registration Aug15Monday Summer Grades due Aug22Monday Fall 2022 First Half Classes Begin Aug26Friday2pm - 3pmAnnual State of the Department with Professor Christoph Boehme, Physics and Astronomy ChairFletcher Building - James C. (JFB) and Zoom Aug26Friday5:30pm - 7:30pmPhysics & Astronomy: Back to School BBQ U astronomers tackle decade’s biggest questions The innovative research from U physics and astronomy hit the areas that the national community... Read More Out with a bang: explosive neutron star merger captured for the first time in millimeter light In a first for radio astronomy, scientists have detected millimeter-wavelength light from a short-duration gamma-ray... Read More the Spectrum 2022 Featured: black holes, student awards, research awards, LGBT+ physicists, and more. Read here. Read More Are scientists about to unveil the mysteries of dark matter? The Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, is the world’s largest and most powerful particle... Read More Ramón Barthelemy Ramón S. Barthelemy, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Utah, has... Read More Cyri Dixon Cyri Dixon, the Undergraduate Academic Advising Coordinator for the Department of Physics & Astronomy, has... Read More Luis Rufino Luis Rufino, a senior who will graduate with a degree in physics, has overcome many... Read More Pearl Sandick Pearl Sandick, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs for... Read More Vicki Nielsen Vicki Nielsen, Accountant in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, has received a Staff Excellence... Read More Claudia De Grandi Claudia De Grandi, Assistant Professor (Lecturer) of educational practice in the Department of Physics &... Read More Oleg Starykh Oleg Starykh, professor of physics and astronomy, has been recognized as an Outstanding Referee by... Read More Miguel Rodriguez awarded Fulbright Scholarship Miguel Rodriguez, postdoc research associate in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, is ready... Read More Astronomer Juna Kollmeier to present at Frontiers of Science on March 22 MAPPING THE COSMOS Tuesday, March 22, 6 p.m. Juna Kollmeier Director at CITA Aline W. Skaggs... Read More 1st study of LGBT+ physicists reveals red flags 1st study of LGBT+ physicists reveals red flags LGBT+ physicists often face harassment and other... Read More Vikram Deshpande’s research on carbon nanotubes featured in Physics Today The research of Assistant Professor Vikram Deshpande and his team is featured below and... Read More Recent News Read All News