Faculty and Staff

Masha Baryakhtar Photo
Masha Baryakhtar awarded Sloan Fellowship
February 17, 2026
Gustavo Joaquin Turiaci Portrait
Congratulations to Joaquin Turiaci for winning a DOE Early Career Award 2025
December 30, 2025
David Kaplan wins the Tomassoni Chisesi Prize in Physics
David Kaplan wins the Tomassoni Chisesi Prize in Physics 
December 30, 2025
Martin Savage Photo
Martin Savage is awarded the Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics
November 4, 2025
Jiun-Haw Chu headshot
Jiun-Haw Chu selected as a Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator
October 9, 2025
A DAMIC-M detector module with silicon CCDs. The module is enclosed in a high-purity copper frame for installation in the detector prototype.DAMIC-M Collaboration
Deep beneath the French Alps, dark matter hunters narrow their search
September 5, 2025
Ju and Hertzog Elected Washington State Academy of Sciences
Kai-Mei Fu and David Hertzog elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences
July 23, 2025
Congratulations to Professor David Hertzog on being elected to the National Academy of Sciences (UW News)
April 29, 2025
Dark Universe Science Center
Dark Universe Science Center Awarded Simons Targeted Institute Grant
April 8, 2025
Xiaodong Xu Portrait
Xiaodong Xu awarded the National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery
February 10, 2025
Eric Adelberger Portrait
Eric Adelberger wins Einstein Prize
October 15, 2024
David Baker Photo
David Baker wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Will give Physics Colloquium on Nov 25
October 9, 2024
Gupta Lab
Faculty search in experimental atomic, molecular, and optical physics
September 24, 2024
New Quantum Hall Effect
Physicists Puzzle Over Emergence of Strange Electron Aggregates
May 31, 2024
David Kaplan News APS
Making Sense of Handedness on a Lattice
April 3, 2024
Donna Messina Summer Institute
Summer Institute in Physics Resumes
January 11, 2024
Leslie Rosenberg awarded the 2024 Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
November 1, 2023
Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy
Closing in on the elusive neutrino
October 17, 2023
Elise Novitski Freedman Picture
Elise Novitski Awarded 2023 Stuart Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics
September 26, 2023
Masha Baryakhtar Photo
DOE Early Career Award
September 7, 2023
Muon g-2
Muon g-2 doubles down with latest measurement, explores uncharted territory in search of new physics
August 10, 2023
Moire Graphite Press Image
Researchers put a new twist on graphite
July 27, 2023
Quantum computing leap with a magnetic twist
Researchers make a quantum computing leap with a magnetic twist
June 28, 2023
Mark Rudner Portrait
2023 Brown Investigator Award
May 22, 2023
CENPA Megapixel CCDs
First Constraints from DAMIC-M on Sub-GeV Dark-Matter Particles Interacting with Electrons
May 9, 2023
Faser Particle Detector CERN
Team detects first neutrinos made by particle collider
March 24, 2023
H9 T cell infected by HIV
Novel HIV combination therapies could prevent viral escape and rebound
July 25, 2022
light-induced-ferromagnetism
Lasers trigger magnetism in atomically thin quantum materials
April 20, 2022
SARS-CoV-2 variants
Immune System’s Memory in an Evolving World
March 29, 2022
Katrin Spectrometer
A new upper limit on the mass of neutrino
February 23, 2022
Armita Nourmohammad Headshot
Armita Nourmohammad Awarded 2022 Early Career Award for Biological Physics
October 25, 2021
Kaplan and Hertzog
APS Feshbach and Bonner prize awardees
October 15, 2021
A3D3 Concept
New NSF-funded institute to harness AI for accelerated discoveries in physics, astronomy and neuroscience
September 28, 2021
AdelbergerHeckelGundlachGroup
Frontier of Physics Lecture Series Event on October 20
September 22, 2021
Yankowitz and Nourmohammad Portrait
NSF CAREER Awardees
August 30, 2021
Gerald Seidler receives grant to study nuclear waste
August 17, 2021
Matthew Yankowitz Lee Osheroff Richardson Science Prize Headshot
Matthew Yankowitz wins NSF CAREER Award
August 13, 2021
UW physics professor receives grant to study nuclear waste
August 9, 2021
Dianne Harris named dean of UW College of Arts & Sciences
July 15, 2021
ArtSci Roundup: Will Rawls: Everlasting Stranger, Grit City Think & Drink: Global Themes in World History since 1500 in Five Images, and More
July 6, 2021
Husky 100
June 15, 2021
ArtSci Roundup: A new Measure: the Revolutionary Quantum Reform of the Metric System, Sacred Breath: Indigenous Writing and Storytelling Series, and more
May 10, 2021
FASER is born: new experiment will study particles that interact with dark matter
May 5, 2021
A Tiny Particle’s Wobble Could Upend the Known Laws of Physics
April 7, 2021
First results from Muon g-2 experiment strengthen evidence of new physics
April 7, 2021
Big Physics News: The Muon g-2 Experiment Explained
April 7, 2021
University of Washington graduate and professional disciplines rank highly in US News’ ‘Best Graduate School’ lists
March 29, 2021
A New Twist Reveals Superconductivity’s Secrets
March 16, 2021
Joe Rothberg Memoriam
Joseph Rothberg, 1935-2021
March 5, 2021
Quantum Leap
March 1, 2021