DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

First clear evidence of a metal-rich birthplace for a superluminous supernova

Partnership expected to advance wide range of science, including medicine, energy

Graduate student Joseph Cordero Mercado has received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program award for his proposal titled "Controlled Chemistry with Single-Particle Resolution in a Hybrid Trap."

The Physics of Solids by J. B. Ketterson was recently published by Oxford University Press.

Prof. Faucher-Giguère has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant for his proposal "The Physics of Stellar Feedback and Star Formation Regulation in Galaxies"

After four years of service as Program Manager, Defense Science Office, Prem Kumar has been recognized for Outstanding Public Service.

Blobs of gas near the Milky Way’s center may be just the right mass to harbor young stars and possibly planets, too. Any such budding stellar systems would face an uphill battle, developing only about two light-years from the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole with its intense gravity and ultraviolet radiation. But it’s not impossible for the small stars to survive in the hostile place, a new study suggests.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory featured the work of Raffaella Margutti in a press release on the significance of supernova SN 2014C, a "chameleon supernova."