Catherine Cotter selected as the winner of the Dean’s Meteor Award
December 14, 2020
2020 News
December
Anna Grassellino named Woman of the Year
December 14, 2020
Supercomputing Time Awarded for Third Year to Sasha Tchekhovskoy
December 3, 2020
November
Congratulations to André de Gouvêa - AAAS Fellow!
November 24, 2020
NASA’s Hubble Sees Unexplained Brightness from Colossal Explosion
November 23, 2020
New analysis of gravitational-wave data leads to wealth of discoveries
November 12, 2020
Northwestern Professor Claude-André Faucher-Giguère and recent PhD graduate Zachary Hafen Publish Observations of Andromeda’s Halo Test
November 12, 2020
October
Professor Tim Kovachy Receives Prestigious Packard Fellowship
October 15, 2020
Congratulations to Michael MacKenzie: DOE Graduate Student Research Fellowship
October 13, 2020
Mayda Velasco elected to the Governing Board of the University of Puerto Rico
October 13, 2020
September
Anna Grassellino named Fellow of the APS
September 29, 2020
Brian Odom elected a Fellow of the APS
September 28, 2020
Adilson Motter elected Fellow of the Network Science Society
September 24, 2020
ASG Faculty Honor Roll Elections
September 15, 2020
NU Research Funding bolstered by Department of Physics & Astronomy
September 11, 2020
The SQMS Center, Jim Sauls & Anna Grassellino featured in article on major increases in NU Research funding.
Important LIGO discovery by Vicky Kalogera, Christopher Berry & Chase Kimball
September 3, 2020
August
Northwestern wins major Quantum Information Science grant - Anna Grassellino and James Sauls
August 28, 2020
Adilson Motter and Daniel Abrams publish paper regarding, "Why are US Parties so Polarized?"
August 26, 2020
Rafaella Margutti Obtains Tenure
August 17, 2020
CFP Calls for Proposals for Fundamental Physics Experiments
August 17, 2020
Calcium-rich supernova examined with X-rays for first time
August 6, 2020
Unprecedented observations shine light on a compact star’s final moments
July
Wen-Fai Fong & team observes an extraordinary, short gamma-ray burst
July 14, 2020
Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction (CMQT) Awarded $12.4 Million as DOE EFRC
July 7, 2020
June
New York Times headlines Prof. Kalogera and team’s work
June 24, 2020
LIGO-Virgo finds mystery astronomical object in ‘mass gap’
June 23, 2020
End of the Year Celebration Announcement
June 5, 2020
May
Astrophysicists capture new class of transient objects
May 28, 2020
Congratulations to Beverly Lowell & Danat Issa receiving Graduate Student Fellowships
May 4, 2020
April
Quantum Physicists Predict New States of Matter
April 22, 2020
Michael Zevin receives NASA Hubble Fellowship Award
April 21, 2020
Yuanzhao Zhang Named Schmidt Science Fellow
April 9, 2020
March
Yas Shemirani places as runner up in “You Can Make a Difference”
March 20, 2020
Seminars, Colloquia and Heilborn canceled until further notice
March 12, 2020
Margutti wins the NSF CAREER grant!
March 12, 2020
Discovery of broken time-reversal symmetry in the topological superconductor UPt3
March 10, 2020
Motter group result featured on Nature Physics cover
March 6, 2020
Bud Robinson Selected for 2019-20 Ver Steeg Staff Award
March 6, 2020
February
Congratulations to Vicky Kalogera and Fred Rasio: First Class of AAS Fellows!
February 27, 2020
This is a new and rare distinction accorded only 0.5% of the membership of AAS.
OSA Publishing Announces the Appointment of Prem Kumar as the New Editor-in-Chief of Optica
February 17, 2020
Physics & Astronomy Professor John Joseph Carrasco Named 2020 Sloan Research Fellow
February 13, 2020
January
Jim Sauls and Jens Koch featured in an article from the Office for Research
January 22, 2020
Physics Shows That Imperfections Make Perfect
January 22, 2020
Koch Group releases scQubits
January 7, 2020