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āA Beautiful, Once-In-a-Lifetime Eventā: The Total Solar Eclipse on April 8
Walter Freemanās āIntroduction to Astronomyā classes always end the same way they began, with Freeman advising his students that, ultimately, āwe look at the stars because they are pretty and they illuminate who we are as humanity.ā That humanity will…
Remembering Professor Emeritus of Physics Marvin Goldberg
Editorās Note: The following article was contributed to by Goldbergās colleagues, including Eric Schiff, Tomasz Skwarnicki and Edward Lipson. The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) mourns the passing of Marvin Goldberg Gā65, professor emeritus of physics. Remembered for his…
Physics Professor Receives NSF Grant for Work at CERN
Physics Professor Marina Artuso has been awarded a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for her project, Development of UltraFast High Granularity Modules for Timing Layers for the LHCb Upgrade 2 and Future Collider Calorimeter Applications. Her co-principal investigators on…
Tidal Disruption Events and What They Can Reveal About Black Holes and Stars in Distant Galaxies
Astrophysicists from Syracuse University and the University of Leeds have collaborated with high school students in Syracuse to confirm the accuracy of an analytical model that can unlock key information about supermassive black holes and the stars they engulf. At…
American Physical Society Honors Professor Alison Patteson
Alison E. Patteson, assistant professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been recognized by the American Physical Society (APS) with a national prize. Patteson received the 2024 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement by…
Physics Professor Honored by the American Physical Society
Jennifer Schwarz, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). She joinsĀ 24 previous Syracuse University faculty members to receive the distinction over the 100 years that the…
5 NSF Grants Fund Syracuse University Researchersā Work With Cosmic Explorer
Billions of years ago in a distant galaxy, two black holes collided sparking one of the universeās most extreme cosmic events. The occurrence was so powerful that it bent the fabric of spacetime, sending out ripples called gravitational waves. These…
Physics Department Holds 2nd Annual Paid Internship Program for Aspiring Young Scientists in Syracuse
In 20 years, when you ask a group of scientists to recall the moment they decided they wanted to pursue a career in STEM, they might say it happened on the campus of Syracuse University in the summer of 2023….
A&S Physicists Design Technology Used to Discover New Information About What the Universe Is Made Of
College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) physicists just launched a new tracking device to research the fundamental forces and particles in the universe. The device, known as the Upstream Tracker, was installed at the renowned European Organization for Nuclear Research…
Physics and Mathematics Major Chance Baggett ā24 Named an Astronaut Scholar
Chance Baggett, a rising senior in the College of Arts and Sciences studying physics and mathematics and a member of the RenĆ©e Crown University Honors Program, has been named a 2023-24 Astronaut Scholar by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF). Founded…