What Would Happen if You Fell Into a Black Hole?

  Newsweek TECH & SCIENCE BY ARISTOS GEORGIOU ON 6/18/22 AT 5:00 AM EDT Black holes are some of the most enigmatic and extreme astronomical phenomena that we know about in the universe. But what ...

A physicist’s love of climbing leads to a new kind of class

Around the O  May 20, 2022 – 5:00am The first year Graham Kribs was a faculty member at the University of Oregon, he spent his lunch breaks at the UO Recreation Center taking a rock-climbing ...

Congratulations to Eric Torrence, who won the prestigious Tykeson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Hal Sadofsky (CAS Divisional Dean for Natural Sciences), Bruce Blonigen (Tykeson Dean of Arts and Sciences) and Richard Taylor (Physics Department Head) presented the well-deserved award ...

They ran the 1st New York City Marathon. Only one returns for the 50th

November 3, 2021 8:54 AM ET AIMEE BERG Larry Trachtenberg, one of the original athletes that completed the first New York City Marathon in 1970, will run the marathon’s 50th edition this year. He kept ...

Zinc-infused proteins are the secret that allows scorpions, spiders and ants to puncture tough skin

The Conversation September 1, 2021 8.10am EDT

The big idea

Many small animals grow their teeth, claws and other “tools” out of materials that are filled with zinc, bromine and manganese, ...

Drawn to Science

Oregon Quarterly  April 7, 2021 Research faculty members and students from the UO’s first-in-the-nation comics studies minor bring complex concepts to life through illustrations STORY BY LEWIS TAYLOR The University of Oregon Science/Comics Interdisciplinary Research Program ...

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 ...