Current News

03/27/12 - Treasured faculty member Prof. Brian Serot passed away March 2, 2012. Scientific Obituary

05/07/11 - Teppei Katori, IU grad student alumnus, awarded the 2012 IUPAP C11 Young Scientist Prize

05/03/12 - Sloppy shipping of human retina leads IU researchers to discover new treatment path for eye disease

05/03/12 - Profs. Michael Berger, Hal Evans, Denver Whittington make major contributions to DZero analysis

04/30/12 - With the opening May 27 of NOvA -- IU responsible for major component of $283 million experiment. The laboratory is now built, and Indiana University physicists are ready to help assemble within it the world's largest PVC structure. It's all part of NOvA, an advanced neutrino experiment designed to help explain why the universe was created with more matter than antimatter.

04/20/12 - Profs. Sima Setayeshgar and Mike Snow honored for excellence in teaching by receiving Outstanding undergraduate Teaching and Outstanding Graduate Teaching awards, respectively, as selected by undergraduate Physics majors and graduate students at our Annual Awards Colloquium.

04/19/12 - Students honored at our Annual Awards Colloquium

03/13/12 - Area high school students can register for summer science and math tutoring at IU Bloomington in a program initiated by Physics graduate students. For more information on this Outreach program, go to www.indiana.edu/~fsm.

02/21/12 - Congratulations to Prof. Radovan Dermisek for receiving an Outstanding Junior Faculty Award - only 4-5 of these are awarded each year from the entire campus.

02/20/12 - Prof. Steve Gottlieb has been elected to a three-year term as an APS Councilor through the Division of Computational Physics. The Council is the governing board of the American Physical Society.

01/05/12 - Kostelecky's 1985 publication on faster-than-light neutrinos number one in Physics Letters B "Top 25 Hottest Articles"

01/05/12 - IU Physics Research Scientist Jason Gardner has been appointed editor-in-chief of prestigious Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. His introductory editorial is online. Read more on Dr. Gardner's research here.

12/14/11 - Prof. Kostelecky honored as Distinguished Referee for Europhysics Letters

12/13/11 - With mounting evidence of a possible sighting of the Higgs Boson from the Large Hadron Collider, IU physicists find themselves in thick of new results. Members of the IU Department of Physics belong to the ATLAS detector collaboration, which reported their recent results on the search...read more at the IU News Room.

12/02/11 - Adam Szczepaniak has been named a 2011 Fellow of the American Physical Society "For the development of perturbative and nonperturbative methods in Quantum Chromodynamics in the lightcone and equal time formalisms and for their application to properties of exotic mesons". Fellowship is a distinct honor signifying recognition by one's professional peers and normally restricted to 1% of the membership of the American Physical Society in any given year.

12/01/11 - Mark Gebhard, Master Electronic Technician, is one of six IU Bloomington staff selected to receive the 2011 Staff Merit Award. For the last 24 years, Mark has been instrumental in designing, building and repairing equipment essential to the success of astrophysics and neutrino physics experiments. His ability to quickly and expertly conceptualize, implement, and trouble-shoot these highly specialized instruments is not only remarkable in itself but it has been essential to the success of many research projects. As further evidence of his commitment to IU, Mark has taken his own time to chronicle the history of the Indiana University Department of Physics in a 700 page volume.

11/04/11 - IUB Physics team led by Prof. Tayloe developed a novel neutrino and neutron detector called SciBath, which has now been installed for testing at Fermi National Laboratory. Read more from Fermilab..

10/20/11 - Researchers in the IU Biocomplexity Institute have developed a computational model for early embryonic development in vertebrates. The model was simulated in the CompuCell3D environment, which reproduced early stages of embryonic development when segments called somites form...Read more from IU News Room.

09/23/11 - Observed "faster than light" travel of neutrinos was predicted by IU theorist Prof. Alan Kostelecky and coworkers in 1985. On the other hand, IU alum Chang-Kee Jung (now at SUNY Stony Brook) remains skeptical. Read more from the IU News Room.

09/08/11 - Prof. Lisa Kaufman involved in the slowest Standard Model process ever: As a member of the EXO collaboration, Prof. Kaufman has been involved in the measurement of an extremely rare process of two-neutrino double-beta decay of an isotope of Xenon: How slow is slow? EXO knows!. IU and Kaufman provided key parts for the calibration system that was used to understand the detector's behavior and for measuring the purity of the liquid xenon. Kaufman was instrumental in organization of the running of the experiment and data taking, as well as installing an emergency recovery system for the xenon.

09/06/11 - IU PhD and postdoctoral research Nikodem Poplawski is featured in the episode "Parallel Universes: Are They Real?" on "Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman" appearing on both the Discovery and Science Channels. More from this episode.

08/29/11 - Recruiting is underway for the new IU Bloomington Medical Physics program. Classes begin Fall 2012; to learn more about the program, please visit the IUB Medical Physics website or read more from IU News Room.

06/29/11 - IU physics PhDs offer tutoring assistance in math, physics to area high school students. The summer program is now running in its second year. Read more from IU News Room.

06/24/11 - MINOS experiment observes rare neutrino events. Scientists of the MINOS experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced the results from a search for a rare phenomenon, the transformation of muon neutrinos into electron neutrinos. Read more at the Fermilab news room.

04/19/11 - IU alumnus and postdoctoral research Nikodem Poplawski has a different way of looking at the universe. Read about his research in the IU news article

04/13/11 - The Indiana University Board of Trustees rededicated and renamed the IU Cyclotron Facility as the Integrated Science and Accelerator Technology (ISAT) Hall. President McRobbie used the opportunity to award the President's Medal to Professor Emeritus Robert Pollock. See the IU news article.

03/28/11 - The American Physical Society has recognized Indiana University physicist Charles Horowitz with a lifetime award as an Outstanding Referee for his work assessing manuscripts submitted to the society's publications. See the IU news article.

03/25/11 - Physics graduate student Justin Stevens awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Research Fellowship of $18,000 for 2011-12. This 10-month fellowship is intended to provide support for him while he is conducting his research and writing your dissertation. With this award the College recognizes the quality of his past graduate work and expresses the confidence of the College and his department in his promise as a developing scholar.

03/11/11 - Physics graduate student Leo Mesquita awarded the McCormick Science Grant for 2011. The grant of $2,500.00 is intended to provide support for him while he is conducting his research in collaboration with Professor Rob de Ruyter. Charles O. McCormick III, M.D., established the McCormick Science Grant Fund to honor his father and grandfather and to support basic science research.In creating the fund Dr. McCormick asked the College to identify the graduate student member of a faculty/graduate student team whose research is judged most creative, visionary, and innovative.

02/11/11 - IU Physics Professor Chuck Horowitz named an "Outstanding Referee" by the editors of the American Physical Society journals.