22 January 2026 | Source

By Stephanie Metzger Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation Yvette Cendes has done much of her research on tidal disruption events, which occur when a star drifts too close to a black hole and is shredded by the tidal forces, at the Very Large Array in New ...

UO particle physicist Tien-Tien Yu is investigating one of the most puzzling matters in science

Source: Oregon News

It’s human nature to look at the night sky and feel full of wonder, but University of Oregon physicist Tien-Tien Yu takes that to the next level. When Yu gazes up at stars and ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit”

7 October 2025 || Source The Nobel Prize laureates in physics for ...

The University of Oregon Week of Welcome is four activity-filled days leading up to the start of classes Sept. 29. Of special note for employees will be traffic and parking impacts during residence hall move-in known as Unpack the Quack. Most students will move in Thursday, Sept. 25, or Friday, ...

The UO Physics Department Commencement Ceremony will be held in the EMU Ballroom on Monday June, 16, from 4:00-6:00 pm. Congratulations to the Class of 2025!

This follows the main University of Oregon’s 148th Commencement Ceremony which will take place the morning of June 16, 2025, at 9:00 ...

The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb collaborations during a ceremony held in Los Angeles on 5 April

7 April, 2025 || Source This weekend, the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN were honoured ...

21 January 2025 || Office of the Vice President for Research & Innovation A University of Oregon physicist is among the nearly 400 scientists and engineers awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the US government on ...

IFS particle physicist and UO associate professor Tien-Tien Yu has been awarded the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). From the Office of the White House: Today, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career ...

16 September 2024

Source

Stargazers will be in for another celestial treat Tuesday night as three cosmic events will occur at the same time during the full moon. After last month brought space enthusiasts a blue supermoon, September’s harvest moon will not only coincide with a supermoon, but ...

3 April 2024 || Source (KLCC)

For the third time in seven years, Oregonians will get to see a solar eclipse. It won’t be the total eclipse of the sun witnessed in 2017, nor the ring of fire from last year’s annular eclipse. But on Monday morning, sky-watchers will have a reason to look up.

In ...