News & Events EventsView Seminars & Colloquia Mar31Friday2pm - 3pmColloquium with Kwabena Bediako, University of California, BerkeleyFletcher Building - James C. (JFB) and Zoom Apr06Thursday4pm - 5pmHEAP Seminar with Dr. Catherine Zucker Hubble Fellow, Space Telescope Science InstituteEvans & Sutherland planetarium showroom 770 Komas Dr, Salt Lake City, UT 84108 Apr07Friday2pm - 3pmColloquium with Giorgio Gratta, Stanford UniversityFletcher Building - James C. (JFB) and Zoom Apr13Thursday4pm - 5pmHEAP Seminar with Brian Williams, NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterIntermountain Network Scientific CC (INSCC) and Zoom Apr14Friday2pm - 3pmColloquium with Ann Hornschemeier, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASAFletcher Building - James C. (JFB) and Zoom New study questions decades-long understanding of gamma ray bursts This page origanially appeared on @THEU Adapted from a release by Francis Reddy, senior science writer... Read More In Memory of Frank E. Harris The University of Utah’s Physics & Astronomy community is deeply saddened by the passing of... Read More Meeting the Mission Remembering Maria Cranor By Alastair Boone “A lot of us have inflection points in our lives,” says Ryan... Read More Nyawelo wins 2023 Spirit of Salam Award This Article originally appeared on @THEU The family of International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)... Read More Groundbreaking for Applied Sciences Project This page origanially appeared on @THEU On Friday, Feb. 10, the University of Utah held a... Read More Space dust as Earth’s sun shield UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RELEASE Media contacts: –Ben Bromley, professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University... Read More Maria Cranor (1946 – 2023) We are sorry to report that Maria Cranor, former departmentInstructor, died January 15 of natural... Read More Physics and Astronomy Weekly (PAW) Professors Tugdual LeBohec and Eugene Mishchenko have initiated a friendly problem solving competition, Physics and Astronomy... Read More U of U PandA alum is Voyagers’ deputy project scientist This article originally appeared in the Princeton University news The twin Voyager spacecraft captured the... Read More Mysterious bright flash is a black hole jet pointing straight at Earth This article originally appeared in the @THEU Earlier this year, astronomers at the Palomar Observatory... Read More Catching neutrinos in Utah – CERN Courier This article originally appeared in the CERNCourier Neutrinos are the least understood of all elementary... Read More IceCube neutrinos give us first glimpse into the inner depths of an active galaxy Adapted from a release by the IceCube Collaboration. For the first time, an international team of... Read More Physics professors named APS fellows Two professors in the U’s Department of Physics & Astronomy—Christoph Boehme, Professor and Chair of... Read More Alumnus Profile: Nick Borys Nick Borys, who received his Ph.D. in Physics from the U, is now Assistant Professor... Read More U students create new presentations during planetarium internship This past summer Keegan Benfield, Ethan Lamé, and Christian Norseth, in the U’s Department of... Read More Recent News Read All News