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  • Virtually Physics

    Doctoral student Jared Canright is exploring the potential of virtual reality to explain physics concepts to UW undergraduates. 

    August 2019 Perspectives
  • UW professors to receive 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

    The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers is the highest honor given by the U.S. government to early career scientists and engineers.

    UW NEWS
  • Climate change expert named 2019 ASLD

    UW honors longtime Harvard professor and one of America's leading climate change scientists, James Anderson (BS, Physics, 1966).

    Columns
  • Two UW students honored by Goldwater Foundation

    Selected from 1,223 nominees from across the country, Natural Sciences undergraduates Chris Moore and Irika Sinha were named Goldwater Scholars.

    University of Washington
  • David Thouless–Nobel laureate and UW professor emeritus–dies at age 84

    Thouless was a theoretical physicist whose most well-known work focused on the properties of matter in extremely thin layers.  

    UW News
  • UW, Microsoft, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory establish new Northwest Quantum Nexus

    Learn about how this exciting new coalition aimed at bringing about a revolution in quantum research and technology.

    UW News
  • FASER detector at the Large Hadron Collider to seek clues about hidden matter in the universe

    Shih-Chieh Hsu, associate professor of physics at UW, and the rest of the FASER team seek to answer one of the outstanding questions in particle physics: What is dark matter made of?

    UW News
  • Physicists stack 2D materials at angles to trap particles on the nanoscale

    A team of UW-led physicists reports that it has developed a new system to trap individual excitons — bound pairs of electrons and their associated positive charges

    UW News
  • UW physicist named Packard Fellow

    UW physicist Jiun-Haw Chu named Packard Fellow for research on quantum materials.

    UW News
  • Three new physics experiments could revamp the standard model

    Physics Graduate Student Rachel Osofsky is quoted about her work adjusting the magnetic field of a new electromagnetic ring.

    09/20/2018
  • For UW physicists, the 2-D form of tungsten ditelluride is full of surprises

    For a team led by scientists at the UW, the 2-D form of one metallic compound — tungsten ditelluride, or WTe2 — is a bevy of quantum revelations. 

    UW News
  • Atomically thin magnetic device could lead to new memory technologies

    A University of Washington-led team is working on a magnetic breakthrough that may revolutionize both cloud computing technologies and consumer electronics.

    UW News
  • After 30 years of R&D, breakthrough announced in dark matter detection technology, definitive search to begin for axion particles

    The Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) at the University of Washington is the world's first experiment to be sensitive enough to "hear" the signs of dark matter axions.

    UW News
  • If Tiny Dark Matter Particle Exists, This Experiment Is Now Ready to Find It

    The research team at the UW have announced that the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) is officially sensitive enough to find the theoretically predicted axion.

    Gizmodo
  • A Quantum Leap

    A physics student explores the possibilities of quantum computing — with help from a Microsoft Research Fellowship.

    March 2018 Perspectives

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