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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 woman smiles with her arms crossed in front in an observatory telescope room.
February 12, 2025
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Laura Chomiuk received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, or PECASE, the highest honor given to scientists by the U.S. government early in their careers.
Three oxygen sensors prior to burial in the sediment of the stream bed to monitor dissolved oxygen dynamics continuously over 1.5 years at depths of 10 cm, 20 cm and 35 cm below the East River.
January 23, 2025
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Michigan State University professor is committed to solving one of Earth’s most pressing problems — access to clean water — through applied physics.
Detailed close up showing quantum computer mechanical parts.
January 22, 2025
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Johannes Pollanen didn’t set out to become an entrepreneur. Originally a physicist studying superfluids, Pollanen first turned his attention to quantum computing over a decade ago at Caltech. Building a marketable quantum computer wasn’t on his radar.
Do Portrait
January 17, 2025
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Our sun is essentially a searing hot sphere of gas. Its mix of primarily hydrogen and helium can reach temperatures between 10,000 and 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit on its surface and its atmosphere’s outermost layer. Because of that heat, the blazing orb constantly oozes a stream of plasma, made up of charged subatomic particles — mainly protons and electrons. The sun’s gravity can’t contain them because they hold so much energy as heat, so they drift away into space as solar wind. Understanding how charged particles as solar wind interact with other transient eruptions of energy from the sun can help scientists study cosmic rays emitted in supernova explosions. 
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.