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Matt Perko

UCSB researchers to collaborate in three of NSF's Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes

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Debra Herrick

New physics Ph.D. Ray Adkins is bound for Yale, prestigious award in hand, to apply his research to neuroscience
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Planetary defense project selected for NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program
“Particle physics isn’t dead,” reads the blackboard behind an expressive physicist presenting to a packed audience.
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Although the LHC only discovered one new particle, “particle physics isn’t dead,” physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed exclaims in the program’s packed final talk.

Physicists gather to chart a path for the next kind of particle collider
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Physicist Gary Horowitz receives 2023 Einstein Prize from the American Physical Society
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Two assistant professors in Department of Physics receive Sloan Research Fellowships
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