Physicist Steve Choi will analyze satellite data to focus on reionization, one of the least understood epochs in cosmic history

Barry Barish will receive the IUPAP-TIFR Homi Bhabha Award in July

Barry Barish is one of only 38 new members of North America’s oldest learned society

Umar Mohideen’s image from Casimir effect experiment will appear in Spanish version of a show on quantum mechanics

CMS collaborators analyze data from Large Hadron Collider collisions

Guido Altarelli Award recognizes Miguel Arratia’s work on probing the structure of the proton

American Physical Society recognizes the department’s efforts to improve undergraduate physics education

For the first time, the UCR Department of Physics and Astronomy provided full financial support for two postdoctoral researchers and three graduate students to attend the Conference for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics that was held last month in San Diego, California. The UCR contingent attended one day of the three-day...

Seven UCR students designed, built, and ran their own experiment

Physicist Andrew Joe has received a Doctoral New Investigator grant

Local cub scouts who visited campus on Nov. 3 got an early education in physics and astronomy. The two-hour event was arranged by Robert Sanderson, an instructional lab manager and lecture demonstration specialist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. “We had almost 30 scouts in attendance, and the kids and their parents all were smiling from...

Kenneth Barish’s two-year term begins in March 2025

UC Riverside astrobiologist Stephen Kane joined efforts to promote two missions to Venus by going to Capitol Hill to advocate for continued congressional funding. Kane is assisting with two planned NASA missions to Venus that will be the first by the U.S. in over 30 years. He is on the science team for the DAVINCI mission, which will measure gases...

Researchers will work at Brookhaven National Laboratory to uncover internal structure of protons

Miguel Arratia and Shawn Westerdale have each been awarded $875,000 over five years

Physicist Jon Richardson is grant’s principal investigator

Love for astronomy begins in childhood. With that in mind, three UC Riverside astronomers gave a presentation on August 3 to hundreds of children on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi on what infrared radiation is and how telescopes use it. Infrared radiation is part of the electromagnetic spectrum that exists between visible light and radio waves...

UCR physicists discuss how the center will benefit the Inland Empire

Christina Manzano was one of two community college teachers attending the weeklong workshop

Study reports very simple forms of matter could generate detectable gravitational wave backgrounds soon after the Big Bang