Physics SlideShow

MedCheck Solutions team wins 2009 AI2V Prize

Published Date:April 13, 2009

Physics graduate students Radhika Rangarajan and Travis Dirks, along with fellow students Guy Tal (Mathematics) and Valerie Blomgren (BA in Dance, now majoring in surveying) won the "Advanced Invention to Venture (AI2V) prize at the annual "V. Dale Cozad New Venture Competition," organized by Illinois' Technology Entrepreneurship Center.

Published Date: April 13, 2009


Gollin and Greene named 2009 Guggenheim Fellows

Published Date:April 8, 2009

Professor of Physics George D. Gollin and Swanlund Professor of Physics Laura H. Greene have been named 2009 Fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

Published Date: April 8, 2009


SciAm Q&A with Nathan on Field Equations

Published Date:April 7, 2009

Physics' own Alan M. Nathan answers Scientific American's questions on the baseball physics in this month's issue.

Published Date: April 7, 2009


Illinois team takes second at national Rube Goldberg contest

Published Date:April 6, 2009

A team from the Illinois Rube Goldberg Society, led by engineering physics sophomore James Kryger, took second place in the national collegiate Rube Goldberg competition at Purdue University on March 28.

Published Date: April 6, 2009


Higgs mass constrained by new analysis

Published Date:March 26, 2009

U of I physicists involved in a new analysis of Tevatron data that now excludes a significant fraction of the allowed Higgs mass range established by earlier measurements.

Published Date: March 26, 2009