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Physics students to attend meeting of Nobel laureates

Mason Ng, Silviu-Marian Udrescu, April Cheng, Tung Tare, and alum Hillary Diane Andales will attend the upcoming Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

April 18, 2024
Categories: In The News, Undergraduates, Graduate Students, WiSTEM

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Physics students to attend meeting of Nobel laureates

April 16, 2024
Categories: In The News, Undergraduates, Graduate Students, WiSTEM

Four MIT faculty named 2023 AAAS Fellows

April 18, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus
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Erin Kara named Edgerton Award winner

April 17, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider begins Run 24

April 15, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment
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Tracy Slatyer awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship

April 12, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Theory, High Energy and Particle Theory
In the center of a black background is a large circular object outlined by electric blue filaments that jolt and weave throughout the structure. The object, which is the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, includes strings of vibrant colors including purple, orange, yellow and blue.

A NASA telescope unlocked the mysteries of black holes. Now it’s on the chopping block

April 11, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Graduate student Michael Calzadilla awarded 2024 NASA Hubble Fellowship

April 10, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
The columns of Building 7 are visible through green foliage on a sunny Spring day.

QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2024

April 10, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors
Netta Engelhardt stands near stairway for a portrait. Dramatic diagonal shapes are created by the stairways and glass railings.

Physicist Netta Engelhardt is searching black holes for universal truths

April 9, 2024
Categories: Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
Joanna Chen wears special eclipse glasses and look up, with other people doing the same in background.

MIT community members gather on campus to witness 93 percent totality

April 8, 2024
Categories: In The News, Events, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
An illustration of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in Earth orbit

NASA’s budget cuts for the Chandra X-ray Observatory could leave a gaping hole in the field

April 4, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
A sphere is made of an array of material and, inside, has a blue arrow pointing down and a red dot pointing up. Under the sphere is a yellow grid with a bulbous red hump going up and a blue hump going down.

MIT researchers discover “neutronic molecules”

April 3, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Quantum Information Science
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