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Organized entirely by undergraduates, the second-annual Undergraduate Physics Conference of Colorado brought together more than 230 attendees from across the region to present research, build community and explore opportunities.
Jun Ye, fellow of JILA and NIST and Monroe Endowed Professor of Physics, has been named a fellow of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M, the institute announced on Oct. 5.
ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ alumnus Aaron Young (PhDPhys’24) is the 2026 recipient of Optica’s Theodore Hänsch Prize in quantum optics, a prestigious prize awarded to early-career scientists for pioneering research on quantum technologies.
Jun Ye, fellow of NIST and JILA and Monroe Endowed Professor of Physics at the ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ, has won the 2026 Wolf Prize in Physics along with Immanuel Bloch (Max Planck Institute), the Wolf Foundation announced on October 1.
In an opinion piece for CERN, Associate Professor Keith Ulmer explores how artificial intelligence could help physicists uncover previously unseen phenomena in particle collision data.
Jerry Leigh, who was hired by Frank Oppenheimer in 1967 and went on to devote 45 years to the Department of Physics’ undergraduate teaching laboratories, passed away in July 2025.
Six physics faculty from ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ are leading or contributing to new projects awarded more than $1.6 million in highly competitive U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission grants, the agency announced on July 22.
Joey Pontiff (Phys’26) is taking his physics and political science education to the nation’s capital this summer, working for the Commission on Quantum Primacy — a national initiative supporting U.S. leadership in quantum technologies.
Stephen Halley White, a ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ alumnus and pioneering biophysicist, passed away on May 31, 2026. White earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ in 1963. As an undergraduate, he held
Physics alumnus Alexander Aeppli (PhDPhys’25) is the recipient of this year’s Deborah Jin Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research, a national honor awarded by the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics