Departmental News
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Oct. 14, 2025
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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Sept. 2, 2025
US Department of Energy grants graduate student research award (SCGSR) to Physics PhD student Maci Kesler at Â鶹¾«Ñ¡
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April 22, 2024
Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ Physics alumna Dr. Dekrayat Almaalol receives 2024 Leona Woods Lectureship Award from Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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April 8, 2024
Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ hosts the total eclipse events.
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March 31, 2024
Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ Department of Physics hosts eclipse planetarium shows and more.
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March 22, 2024
Dr. Lavrentovich, professor of Physics at Â鶹¾«Ñ¡, and collaborators publish an article in Science.
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March 19, 2024
Did you know we have a planetarium? Well, we do. Smith Hall at Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ 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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March 18, 2024
The Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ Department of Physics is proud to welcome our newest faculty member, Dr. Zhangbu Xu.
Jan. 23, 2023
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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Oct. 11, 2022
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…