The popular Summer Physics Academy held each year by the UCR Department of Physics and Astronomy for high school teachers has a different format this year. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, all lectures of the 13th Summer Physics Academy are being delivered to the 25 participating high school teachers via Zoom. Hai-Bo Yu, an associate professor...

Lead researcher Chun Hung (Joshua) Lui is a recipient of a 2020 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation

Kenneth Barish, Richard Seto, and Miguel Arratia will work with a consortium of UC campuses and national labs

UC Riverside’s Bahram Mobasher is a member of the international team that made the discovery

UC Riverside’s Yanou Cui participates in an international experiment that brings together more than 1,000 scientists

UCR’s Bill Gary and Owen Long completed the analysis

Kenneth Barish, the chair of the UC Riverside Department of Physics and Astronomy, formally began the Summer Physics Teacher Academy this year with opening remarks that included the following sobering statistics: Nationally, 33 percent of high school students take physics. In California, on average, 22 percent of high school students take physics...