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MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Natural Science
Department of Physics and Astronomy

News and Activities

Recent Publications

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.
This is a picture of Vashti Sawtelle, a blond woman in a purple shirt and blazer standing outside
October 7, 2024
MSU physics faculty named American Physical Society Fellow
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Vashti Sawtelle, associate professor of physics at MSU, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. 
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Tyler Cocker
September 26, 2024
Tyler Cocker earns Early Career Research Award for charting new territory in material physics
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Tyler Cocker received a prestigious 2024 Early Career Research Award from the Department of Energy (DOE) for research that uses a technique he pioneered to study atomic motion in materials.
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Katharina Domnanich (left) and Greg Severin (right) are working together to build an isotope harvesting laboratory at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University.
September 5, 2024
Ask the expert: How — and why — do you harvest isotopes?
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Katharina Domnanich is helping FRIB prepare to provide a bounty of isotopes useful for medicine, plant science and more
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Norman Birge
August 30, 2024
Norman Birge appointed Interim Associate Dean of Budget, Planning, Research, and Administration
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Norman Birge, Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been appointed Interim Associate Dean of Associate Dean of Budget, Planning, Research, and Administration in the College of Natural Science at Michigan State University.
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A schematic representing a microscopy measurement where a pulse of laser light (red curve) illuminates an atomically sharp tip (top) positioned above the sample surface. The graphene nanoribbon sits on top of a gold substrate. Experimental data is shown in blue, revealing the distribution of electrons above the nanoribbon.
July 8, 2024
Single atoms show their true color
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A new technique reveals single atom misfits and could help design better semiconductors used in modern and future electronics
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Latest News

This is a picture of Vashti Sawtelle, a blond woman in a purple shirt and blazer standing outsideOctober 7, 2024MSU physics faculty named American Physical Society Fellow
Tyler CockerSeptember 26, 2024Tyler Cocker earns Early Career Research Award for charting new territory in material physics
Katharina Domnanich (left) and Greg Severin (right) are working together to build an isotope harvesting laboratory at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University.September 5, 2024Ask the expert: How — and why — do you harvest isotopes?
Norman BirgeAugust 30, 2024Norman Birge appointed Interim Associate Dean of Budget, Planning, Research, and Administration