By Leah Hesla  ilc newsline January 31, 2021 The lure of particle physics was strong with Amanda Steinhebel in 2016, when she was just starting as a doctoral student at the University of Oregon in the United States. It was halfway through her first year of grad school, and she was trying to ...

Around the O  November 2, 2020 – 5:00am The confirmation of 39 new gravitational waves collected this year by LIGO and Virgo detectors in the U.S. and Europe is revealing the diversity of black holes in the universe, says a University of Oregon postdoctoral researcher who helped to ...

Get to know 10 early-career theorists

07/16/19 By Emily Ayshford  symmetry dimensions of particle physics A joint Fermilab/SLAC publication   Junior faculty in theoretical physics talk about what keeps them up at night, their favorite places to think and how they explain their jobs ...

“Great mentors…have had an enormous impact on my career, so I’m driven to ‘pay it forward’ & truly enjoy seeing my students reach their goals.” – particle physicist Stephanie Majewski, one of our faculty members we’re highlighting for #WomensHistoryMonth ...

Ph.D. candidate Johan Bonilla featured as a Young Scientist of ATLAS  

ATLAS Experiment at CERN – Our group hunts for new physics in the products of particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN, Switzerland. International Linear Collider (ILC) – Oregon’s Center for High Energy Physics works with scientists from across the globe to develop ...

Around the O September 18, 2014 – 6:00am The UO’s Pine Mountain Observatory was the star of the show last week, which isn’t bad considering that the co-stars were Altair, Vega, the Ring Nebula and the planet Saturn. The observatory, on a lonely High Desert ...