Faculty and Staff

Mystery of Spinning Atomic Fragments Solved at Last
February 24, 2021
UW physicist pens math-free tour of quantum mechanics and technology
February 8, 2021
CEI-Star
Six CEI researchers among world’s most influential scholars
January 4, 2021
Deck the dorms: How university students are spending the holidays
December 15, 2020
All together now: Experiments with twisted 2D materials catch electrons behaving collectively
October 6, 2020
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Three UW Physics professors are the recipients of the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
September 10, 2020
2021 Breakthrough Prize Winners Announced: Researcher Who Developed Protein Design Technology Awarded $3 Million
September 10, 2020
Protein design and physics earn UW professors a pair of prestigious Breakthrough Prizes
September 10, 2020
Four UW professors win 2021 Breakthrough Prize — so-called ‘Oscars of Science’
September 10, 2020
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UW receives NSF funds for investment in an interdisciplinary quantum future
September 1, 2020
UW receives NSF funds for investment in an interdisciplinary quantum future
August 31, 2020
Lillian McDermott (1931-2020)
July 16, 2020
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Matthew Yankowitz receives prestigious YIP award
July 10, 2020
McLerran Computing
Larry McLerran's Paper Tops Physical Review D 50th Anniversary Milestones
July 9, 2020
Professor tackles one more mystery about quantum mechanics and time’s flow
July 1, 2020
What is the slowest thing on Earth?
June 22, 2020
UW researchers working on ‘flashlight-like’ device to destroy viruses and bacteria on surfaces
April 28, 2020
Dark matter decoys
April 7, 2020
Physicists have narrowed the mass range for hypothetical dark matter axions
March 6, 2020
New Generation of Dark Matter Experiments Gear Up to Search for Elusive Particle
February 3, 2020
New Instrument Will Stretch Atoms into Giant Waves
January 13, 2020
There's a Giant Mystery Hiding Inside Every Atom in the Universe
January 1, 2020
UW Satellite Lab
Washington’s first student-built satellite preparing for launch
October 31, 2019
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New metasurface design can control optical fields in three dimensions
October 7, 2019
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KATRIN cuts the mass estimate for the elusive neutrino in half
September 23, 2019
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Mentor, Advocate & Leader in the Field
September 15, 2019
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Breakthrough Foundation honors UW researcher studying ‘exotic’ states of matter
September 10, 2019
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Q&A: Defects Wanted; Apply Here (Kai-Mei Fu Interview with APS Physics)
September 6, 2019
ArtsUW Roundup: Creating Alternative Worlds, Bulrusher, Final Week of James Coupe: Exercises in Passivity and more!
August 16, 2019
Night skies of August hold wonders
August 7, 2019
Ann Nelson Portrait
Tragic death of Professor Ann Nelson
August 6, 2019
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First-ever visualizations of electrical gating effects on electronic structure could lead to longer-lasting devices
July 17, 2019
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Jiun-Haw Chu & other UW professors to receive 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
July 10, 2019
Two UW students honored by Goldwater Foundation
May 7, 2019
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David Thouless — Nobel laureate and UW professor emeritus — dies at age 84
April 11, 2019
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UW, Microsoft, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory establish new Northwest Quantum Nexus
March 21, 2019
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Synopsis: Putting the Proton Radius in Its Proper Place
March 12, 2019
FASER detector at the Large Hadron Collider to seek clues about hidden matter in the universe
March 8, 2019
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Kim Siang Khaw: a “free thinker”
March 7, 2019
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FASER detector at the Large Hadron Collider to seek clues about hidden matter in the universe
March 6, 2019
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Physicists stack 2D materials at angles to trap particles on the nanoscale
February 26, 2019
Metalens Prototypes
Scientists engineer a functional optical lens out of 2D materials
November 15, 2018
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UW physicist Jiun-Haw Chu named Packard Fellow for research on quantum materials
November 6, 2018
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NSF to fund new $25M software institute to enable discoveries in high-energy physics
September 26, 2018
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Three new physics experiments could revamp the standard model
September 20, 2018
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Atomically thin magnetic device could lead to new memory technologies
May 3, 2018
Designing and Growing Quantum Materials for Energy and Information Technology
April 12, 2018
Quest for Dark Matter (Leslie Rosenberg)
March 19, 2018
Hybrid optics bring color imaging using ultrathin metalenses into focus
February 12, 2018
Scientists get robots ready to study Antarctic ice shelves from below, with $2M boost from Paul Allen
November 8, 2017