Angel Hernandez

Engineering physics senior explores radio astronomy through summer research

July 31, 2024

Engineering physics senior Angel Hernandez is spending the summer looking to the stars and learning the fundamentals of radio astronomy. Earlier this summer, Hernandez completed a boot camp on radio astronomy at the Green Bank Observatory (GBO) in West Virginia. Now he’s at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Research Experience...

Graphic of NASA MAVEN instrument

Professor Dan Baker quoted in Daily Camera Article about the dangers of space junk

July 31, 2024

A concept drawing of CEDA, dust analyzer operating in space

LASP team led by Physics Lecturer Xu Wang awarded NASA technology grant to develop dust analyzer

July 30, 2024

Children watching a science experiment during a  Wizards show

Wizards Bring Magic to the Science Classroom

July 26, 2024

A person using an instrument to measure a table with lasers and other instruments

Professor Bethany Wilcox and Graduate Research Fellow Josephine Meyer discuss improving access to quantum information science education in The Conversation

July 25, 2024

Portrait of Meredith Betterton

Meredith Betterton Awarded AB Nexus seed grant for research collaborations related to AI and climate change

July 24, 2024

A portrait of the 2024 TASI class standing in front of the flatirons

2024 TASI students study frontiers of particle theory

July 23, 2024

The Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics (TASI) recently concluded its 40th year, bringing 65 students from around the world to Boulder to delve into the “Frontiers of Particle Theory.” Supported by the National Science Foundation and the University of Colorado Boulder, TASI brings graduate students to Boulder...

Abbas Hassani receives the 2023 CMS Award from Patty McBride, CMS Spokesperson.

Graduate student Abbas Hassani receives 2023 CMS Award

July 3, 2024

Abbas Hassani, a graduate student in the high energy physics group, has been recognized with a 2023 Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment (CMS) Award for his outstanding contributions to the Silicon Pixel Detector in 2023.

Scott Diddams pictured in the lab with students

Boulder, Elevate Quantum partners ready for $127M regional quantum boost

July 2, 2024

Elevate Quantum, of which Boulder is a key partner, announced today that it has received a Tech Hub Phase 2 implementation award from the Department of Commerce, unlocking more than $127 million in new federal and state funding. The award is expected to drive more than $2 billion in additional private capital and cement the Mountain West as a global leader for quantum innovation.

An extremely cold gas of strontium atoms is trapped in a web of light known as an optical lattice.

Jun Ye's group builds most precise atomic clock

July 1, 2024

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