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Cosmology lectures by Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams now on YouTube

Nov 8, 2009 Joel Primack, professor of physics, and his wife Nancy Abrams gave a series of four public lectures at Yale University in October, and videos of those talks are now available on YouTube....

Fermi results featured on cover of Science

Aug 18, 2009 UCSC physicists and astronomers are coauthors of three major papers reporting scientific results from Fermi in the August 14 issue of Science....

NASA's Fermi Telescope reveals a population of radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars

Jul 2, 2009 UCSC physicists have discovered a new class of pulsars using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope....

New major in physics education approved

Jun 24, 2009 UCSC has approved a new major in physics education to prepare students for California teaching credentials and teaching careers in science and mathematics at the high school level....

Top physicists gather at UCSC to honor Tom Banks and Willy Fischler

Jun 9, 2009 Top physicists will gather at UCSC on June 15 and 16 for a symposium in honor of Thomas Banks, professor of physics at UCSC, and Willy Fischler, professor of physics at the University of Texas,...

Transfer students to benefit from physics and astronomy scholarships

Mar 19, 2009 UCSC has received a five-year, $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to support talented but financially needy students pursuing bachelor's degrees in physics or astrophysics....

Physicists Sriram Shastry and Peter Young honored by American Physical Society

Oct 10, 2008 The American Physical Society has awarded two of its annual prizes to physics professors at UC Santa Cruz....

New space telescope reveals entire gamma-ray sky

Aug 26, 2008 NASA's newest observatory, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), has begun its mission of exploring the universe in high-energy gamma rays using instruments developed by UCSC physicists....

Large Hadron Collider set to unveil a new world of particle physics

Aug 19, 2008 The field of particle physics is poised to enter unknown territory with the startup of a massive new accelerator--the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)--in Europe this summer....

UCSC physicists eagerly await launch of NASA space telescope they helped build

May 29, 2008 When NASA launches its newest space observatory, physicists at UCSC will be watching as the product of nearly 16 years of hard work blasts into orbit....

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