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Takuya Okawa
5.29.25

Takuya Okawa named semifinalist for Dean’s Award for Graduate Research Excellence

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5.21.25

Undergraduate research: Where physics meets a little wonder and a lot of discovery

Graham Chambers-Wall
5.20.25

From WashU to Los Alamos: Physics graduate student selected for DOE research program

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5.16.25

Touching the Moon and Mars, right here in St. Louis!

4.25.25

Guided by curiosity: Undergraduates find encouragement & support in Wang's lab

3.12.25

Crystallizing time

2.27.25

Undergraduate Research: opening doors, sparking new ideas, and shaping the next generation of physicists

Ephraim Gau
2.18.25

High-flying science: How and why we sent a refrigerator halfway to space

2.12.25

Graduate Student Chun Huang discusses new neutron star radius measurement method with AAS

12.18.24

Undergraduate students awarded research support from the M.R. Metzger Family Foundation

12.17.24

Society of Physics Students recognized as Distinguished Chapter

Tied 1st place Graduate awardees, Nathan Whitsett and Bryce Wedig with Graduate student Jason Bub
11.21.24

WashU Physics Research Symposium (WUPRS) celebrates sixth year of collaboration and innovation

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