2015

Arthur Bienenstock Honored with First Endowed Professorship to Link SLAC and Stanford

The holder of the Wallenberg-Bienenstock Professorship will have a joint appointment on the faculties of SLAC and a Stanford science or engineering department. The professorship honors Bienenstock for his efforts to strengthen ties between Stanford and Swedish universities.

Carnegie Mellon University Chemists Create Tiny Gold Nanoparticles That Reflect Nature’s Patterns

New research from Carnegie Mellon chemists has revealed that tiny, synthetic gold nanoparticles exhibit some of nature’s most intricate patterns.

Once More Unto the Breach

As the Large Hadron Collider commences its second run, University of California Santa Barbara researchers ready themselves again to reverse engineer the universe.

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Physicists Celebrate Second Act of Large Hadron Collider

Several UC Riverside physicists are involved in research using one of the four particle detectors at the collider.

NIU Physicists Excited About Restart of Large Hadron Collider

Scientists from the Northern Illinois University physics department are preparing to join thousands of their international colleagues to study the highest-energy particle collisions ever achieved in the laboratory.

UW Apparatus Measures Single Electron’s Radiation to Try to Weigh a Neutrino

University of Washington physicists are part of a team that made a step forward in their efforts to pin down the mass of a neutrino, an elusive subatomic particle that played a role in the formation of the universe.

UAlbany-led Study Finds Vibration Theory of Odor Perception Implausible

An international team of scientists led by University at Albany Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Eric Block, have demonstrated that the vibrational theory of olfaction, one of the two major theories explaining how the sense of smell functions, is not plausible.

U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary Franklin Orr Visits WEI

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Under Secretary for Science Franklin “Lynn” Orr visited the Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI) on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 to learn more about the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s energy research and to do a “deep dive” into the research of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC).