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6.28.21

Chong Zu joins the Department of Physics

6.25.21

Rauch’s cosmic ray research probes origins of matter in the Milky Way

Installation at Johnson Space Center. From left – Ryan Zeigler, Apollo Sample Curator, NASA (PhD Washington University, 2005); Juliane Gross, Deputy Curator of Apollo samples; Olga Pravdivtseva, WashU Physics.
6.25.21

Analysis of pristine samples of the Moon

James Buckley working in the lab
6.21.21

Buckley awarded $4.9 million to develop gamma ray astronomy mission

6.9.21

Physicist Nagy to lead next-gen balloon mission
6.1.21

Israel retiring

5.27.21

Piarulli receives early-career research award

Students in caps and gowns walking through archway
5.24.21

Department of Physics 2021 awards & honors

The mystery of how Cassiopeia A exploded is unraveling thanks to new data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. In this image, NuSTAR data, which show high-energy X-rays from radioactive material, are colored blue.
5.24.21

Krawczynski and Nagy receive NASA funding

5.20.21

Department of Physics Recognition Ceremony 2021

5.3.21

Obituary: Michael Friedlander, professor emeritus of physics, 92

4.30.21

Michael Friedlander, 1928-2021

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