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Outside the Lab

  • April 2024: The group show-cased a particle astrophysics booth at the STEM expo during the MSU Science Festival. The booth featured a cloud-chamber demo and event displays of various neutrino and gamma-ray experiments, and engaged visitors of all ages.
  • April 2024: Dan Salazar defends his PhD thesis, "Leveraging Multi-messenger Astrophysics for Dark Matter Search". Dan joins the MSU group as a postdoc in Summer 2024.
  • April 2024: Finn Mayhew, Jeanne Garriz and Jean Pierre present their work at the APS April Meeting in Sacramento, California
  • November 2023: Jean Pierre presents his work on track reconstruction for P-ONE at the National Society of Black Physicists Conference in Knoxville, TN. 
  • October 2023: MSU hosts the binannual IceCube collaboration meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
A dark comet moving in space around earth with orbit rings
December 10, 2024
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Research led by Michigan State University’s College of Natural Science has uncovered seven new dark comets in our solar system.
Two Michigan State University students adjust a camera on a research telescope.
December 6, 2024
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For the last decade, the MSU Observatory Research Program has provided undergraduate and graduate students alike with real-world research experience and helped them to decide if astrophysics is the right career path.
photo of research facility with the milky way galaxy in the background
November 20, 2024
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Students and faculty are building sensors that will be embedded deep within Antarctic ice to shed new light on the origins of the universe
Artemis Spyrou
October 14, 2024
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In the early 1930s, scientists discovered that some atomic nuclei were more stable than others. These nuclei had specific numbers of protons or neutrons, or magic numbers.
An MSU interim provost wearing a suit hangs a medal around the neck of MSU physicist Johannes Pollanen.
October 9, 2024
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Michigan State University has named Johannes Pollanen as the inaugural Cowen Distinguished Chair in Experimental Physics.