Around the O December 11, 2020 – 2:01 pm A pair of UO faculty members have received one of the most prestigious awards from the National Science Foundation to pursue research projects in their respective fields. Physicist Tien-Tien Yu and biochemist Scott Hansen were named ...

Around the O September 18, 2020 – 1:13pm Theoretical physicist Tien-Tien Yu has received the New Horizons in Physics award for her collaborative work with an international research team and their contributions to the field of “light dark matter.” Part of the prestigious Breakthrough ...

Around the O July 27, 2020 – 5:00am Next time there’s an argument about the age of the universe, just say it’s 12.6 billion years old and that University of Oregon physicist Jim Schombert has the equation to back it up. In a study published in the Astronomical ...

Around the O November 12, 2019 – 5:00am John Toner was frustrated during his final year with IBM in 1993. The industry giant, amid the internet-fueled technological explosion, was giving up fundamental research, his specialty, to pursue applied science to stay competitive. But a lecture by a ...

Around the O July 31, 2019 – 11:14am Laura Jeanty’s search for new particles that may shed light on dark matter and explain why the Higgs Boson has the mass it does has landed the UO physicist five years of financial support from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Early ...

Around the O  December 5, 2018 The first detection of a gravitational wave in September 2015 rocked the physics world and drew international attention. Now, three years later, improved technology that detects deep-space stellar collisions may be finding them on a daily basis, say University of ...

David Strom has been made an American Physical Society Fellow in recognition of his leadership on the ATLAS experiment, particularly related to trigger and data acquisition, and for contributions to the ATLAS physics outcomes, including the discovery of the Higgs boson.

by Mark Furman, KVAL Tuesday, October 3rd 2017 EUGENE, Ore. – Scientists at the University of Oregon who took part in the international effort to detect gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago applauded awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics to three of their ...

CHEP will be at the LIGO booth at OMSI’s Solar Eclipse Viewing Party on August 21. The Oregon group is one of the members of LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) which observed the first gravitational wave on September 14, 2015. LIGO News Release

UO Giving  February 1, 2017 A new grant from The Roundhouse Foundation of Sisters, Oregon, is helping advance plans to outfit the UO’s Pine Mountain Observatory for remote learning. The upgrades will benefit Oregon families during the coronavirus pandemic—and for years to come. Once ...