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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.
Portraits of four MSU faculty
March 28, 2025
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“This year’s class of fellows are the embodiment of scientific excellence and service to our communities,” said Sudip Parikh, AAAS chief executive officer and executive publisher of the Science family of journals
Goldwater scholarship winners
March 28, 2025
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Three Michigan State University College of Natural Science  students have earned the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
An artist’s conception of the exoplanet K2-33b, a 10 Myr Jupiter-sized planet, transiting in front of its active host star. This system is comparable to those which will be observed by the KRONOS collaboration.  Photo credit: NASA/JPL-CalTech
March 5, 2025
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A new collaboration among Michigan State University, Arizona State University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will seek to answer how planets are formed with the help of a powerful telescope and high-performance computers.  
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.