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Sixth-grade students visit Wayne State Planetarium and the Department of Physics and Astronomy
Physics professor joins Quantum To-Go program to celebrate Quantum Day
Alumnus’ generous giving a fundamental part of Wayne State Physics and Astronomy
Alumni
Physics and astronomy hosts Michigan high school students for annual Advanced Placement Day
Wayne State postdoctoral fellow develops state-of-the-art simulations to explain data from the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
Wayne State physics professor awarded 2023 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize
New tutoring partnership with Detroit United Lacrosse benefits WSU and DPS students alike
Physics professor discusses controlled breakthrough in nuclear fusion research
Physics and astronomy professors engage with students at the Michigan Science Center
Renee Ludlam awarded two grants by NASA for her work on low-mass X-ray binaries
Grants
Physics emeritus professor finds remedy for his artery disease; has case study published in medical journals
Professor Claude A. Pruneau elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society
Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 awardees
Returning star: Astronomy grad, NASA fellow back at WSU as a professor
Wayne State nuclear theory group develops ultrasonographic probes for relativistic Quark-Gluon Plasma at trillion degrees temperature
Research
Wayne State CLAS Across the Globe: Summer Research Map 2022
CLAS (Virtual) Undergraduate Research Symposium celebrates #ResearchInDetroit
Wayne State grad programs ranked among nation's best
Five Minutes With: Ed Cackett, astrophysicist and multi-instrumentalist
WSU, University of Maryland collaborate to discover new methods to advance the search for new magnetic materials
Research
Detroit city now on the PYTHIA map
Research
Students present summer research at annual Barber Fair
Wayne State receives NSF award to study how airborne viruses navigate through mucus
Grants
Wayne State receives $1.97 million NIH grant to provide research training to undergraduates
Wayne State physics professor awarded DOE Early Career Research Program grant