News Archive

Thanks for visiting Our Archive! If you are interested in more current events, please see our main News listing.

2023

In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Suspendisse dictum, velit vel vehicula gravida, turpis nulla dignissim nibh, a tristique enim dui vestibulum enim. Duis cursus euismod diam vitae gravida. Etiam a purus lorem.

2022

Hitoshi Murayama Elected as 2021 AAAS Fellow
January 26, 2022, Media Relations

From Bits to Qubits
January 13, 2022, Sarah Charley, Symmetry

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Awards 21 Berkeley Researchers
January 11, 2022, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Astronomers See Death Throes of Giant Star Before Violent Explosion
January 6, 2022, Robert Sanders, CNET

Chung-Pei Ma Named Fellow of American Astronomical Society
January 5, 2022, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

2021

Technique Tunes Into Graphene Nanoribbons Electronic Potential
December 22, 2021, Berkeley Lab News

Parker Solar Probe Touches the Sun
December 16, 2021, Robert Sanders, University of California News

2021 Berkeley Physics Magazine
December 14, 2021, Berkeley Physics

Berkeley Collaboration Reveals the Physics of Unconventional Superconductors
December 3, 2021, Science

Magnons vs Electrons: A New Spin on Computer Processing
December 1, 2021, Lynn Yarris, Phys.Org

How Can Next-Gen Computer Chips Reduce Our Carbon Footprint?
December 1, 2021, Theresa Duque, Berkeley Lab News

2020 Berkeley Physics Magazine
December 1, 2021, Berkeley Physics

First Cohort of Pi2 Summer Scholars
November 29, 2021, Devi Mathieu, Berkeley Physics Magazine

Theodore "Ted" H. Geballe 1920-2021
November 19, 2021, Holly Alyssa MacCormick, Stanford University

Steve Louie Elected a Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
November 18, 2021, Berkeley Physics

2021 L'Oreal Science Fellows Annouced
November 15, 2021, Cision

Linn F. Mollinauer 1937-2021
November 15, 2021, New York Times

Time Crystals in the Limelight
November 8, 2021, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

NASA Selects COSI Team's Telescope for Satellite Mission
October 21, 2021, David Dickinson, NASA

Hint of Dark Matter Sends Physicists Looking to the Skies
October 19, 2021, Jonathan O'Callaghan, Quanta Magazine

Research Team Unlocks Secret Path to a Quantum Future
October 12, 2021, Berkeley Lab News Center

Physicists Snap First Image of an "Electron Ice"
October 4, 2021, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Saul Perlmutter, Inez Fung Appointed to President's Advisory Council
September 22, 2021, The White House

The 2021 Pi2 Summer Scholar Symposium
September 9, 2021, Katherine Gong, Berkeley Physics

Yao, Margutti Honored with New Horizons Prizes
September 9, 2021, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

DOE Announces Funding for Quant-Net
August 31, 2021, Kathy Kincade, Berkeley Lab News

Is Gravity a Quantum Force?
August 28, 2021, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

This Exotic Particle Had an Out-Of-Body Experience
August 19, 2021, Theresa Duque, Berkeley Lab News

Groundbreaking Nobelist Steven Weinberg Dies at 88
July 25, 2021, Dylan Loeb McClain, New York Times

Poster Series Honors Influential Black Physicists
July 22, 2021, Berkeley Physics

A Top Job for High-Precision Studies
July 5, 2021, Nature Physics

Graphene "Camera" Captures Real-Time Electrical Activity of Beating Heart
June 16, 2021, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Are Axions the New Fossil of the Universe?
June 7, 2021, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe

Remembering M. Lynn Stevenson 1923-2021
June 1, 2021, Berkeley Physics

Next-Gen Supercomputer, Perlmutter, Bolsters U.S. Scientific Research
June 1, 2021, Berkeely Physics

Cracking the Code of Superconductor Behavior
May 24, 202, Rachel McDowell, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Pivoting in Real Time
May 21, 2021,  Berkeley Physics

New Possibilities for Precision Cosmology
May 6, 2021, Media Relations, Berkeley Lab News

Uros Seljak Awarded 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize
May 5, 2021, Media Relations, Berkeley Lab News

Chien-Shiung Wu Featured on USPS Forever Stamp
April 29, 2021, Keith Burbank, Berkeley Physics

Going Beyond Qubits
April 29, 2021, Glenn Roberts Jr.,  Berkeley Lab News

A Passion for Physics
April 29, 2021, Berkeley Physics

Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times
April 23, 2021,  Berkeley Research, Teaching, and Learning

Daya Bay: A Neutrino Legacy
April 23, 2021, Physics World

How the Tiniest Particles Saved Us From Complete Annihilation
April 22, 2021, KAVLI IPMU

Nature Highlights Antimatter Research of Fajans-Wurtele Group
April 15, 2021, Nature

New Quantum Materials Have Potential for Spintronics Technologies
April 15, 2021, Ingrid Fadelli

A New Perspective on Hydrodynamics in Quantum Spin Chains
April 13, 2021, Ingrid Fadelli

The Spintronics Technology Revolution Could Be Just a Hopfion Away
April 8, 2021, Theresa Duque, Berkeley Lab News

Infrared Microscopy Goes 'Off The Grid'
April 7, 2021, Laurie Tamura, LBNL

How Fast is the Universe Expanding?
April 2, 2021, Robert Sanders,  Berkeley News

The Black Hole Paradox Nears Its End
March 23, 2021, George Musser, Quanta magazine

Dan Kasen Honored with E.O. Lawrence Award
March 23, 2021, Julie Chao, Berkeley Lab News

LeConte and Barrows Halls Lose Their Names
March 23, 202, Gretchen Kell,  Berkeley News

Physical Review B Milestone Papers Selected
March 22, 2021, American Physical Society

Zhenglu Li Receives APS 2021 Nicholas Metropolis Award
March 12, 2021, American Physical Society

Liang Dai One of Five UC Berkeley Sloan Research Fellows
February 16, 2021, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Carlos Bustamante Plays Tug-of-War With Virus to Find Way to Stop Replication
February 16, 2021, Katherine J. Wu, New York Times

Basic Science Video Highlights Two Physics Faculty
January 11, 2021, Berkeley Physics

2020

Scientists Say Farewell to Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment
December 11, 2020, Glenn Roberts Jr, Berkeley Lab News

UC Berkeley to Lead $25 Million Quantum Computing Center
December 8, 2020, Robert Sanders,  Berkeley News

Proposal to "Un-Name" LeConte Hall
December 8, 2020, Berkeley Physics

Berkeley SPS Awarded 2019-2020 Outstanding Chapter
December 7, 2020, Berkeley Physics

Nailing Down the Magic Number that Shapes the Universe
December 3, 2020, Natalie Wolchover,  Quanta magazine

Scientists Detect the Ghostly Signal that Reveals the Engine of the Universe
November 30, 2020, Gabriel Orebi Gann, Nature

Carbon Wires Complete Toolbox for Carbon-Based Computers
November 13, 2020, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Charges Cascading Along a Molecular Chain
November 12, 2020, Rachel Berkowitz, Berkeley Lab News

Crommie, Budker, Siddiqi Receive APS Awards
October 7, 2020,  American Physical Society

Hartmut Haffner Announced As APS Fellow
September 30, 2020, American Physical Society

Alex Zettl and Team Rewrite Rules for 2D Electronics
September 30, 2020, Theresa Duque, Berkeley Lab News

Can Ripples on the Sun Help Predict Solar Flares?
September 22, 2020, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Geoff Penington Receives Early Career Breakthrough Prize
September 18, 2020, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Next-Gen Cosmic Microwave Background Experiment
September 9, 2020, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News

Quantum Systems Accelerator to Pioneer Discovery Science
September 9, 2020, Dan Krotz, Berkeley Lab News

James Analytis Takes Over as Physics Chair
August 27, 2020, Berkeley Physics

2D Electronics Get an Atomic Tuneup
August 20, 2020, Theresa Duque, Berkeley Lab News

N3AS Center Will Focus on Physics of Ultra-Dense Neutron Stars
August 19, 2020, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

International Physicists Join Forces in Hunt for Sterile Neutrinos
August 10, 2020, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News

Uros Seljak Wins Science Photo Competition
August 10, 2020, Berkeley Physics

AIP Oral History Interview: Robert Birgeneau
July 30, 2020, David Zierler, AIP

Amin Jazaeri Awarded for RACE_Labs Project
July 30, 2020, Gretchen Kell, Berkeley News

Thank You Chair Haxton!
July 30, 2020, Berkeley Physics

A Deep Dive into the Hidden World of Quantum States
July 15, 2020, Theresa Duque, Berkeley Lab News

Heather Gray Receives DOE Early Career Research Award
July 10, 2020, Theresa Duque, Berkeley Lab News

Using Physics to Search for Meaning in the Chaos of Gene Regulation
July 9, 2020, Jonathan Liu, Berkeley QB3

Light Used to Measure How Electrons Move and Interact within Materials
June 30, 2020, Theresa Duque, Berkeley Lab News

Heather Gray and Michael Zaletel Named 2020 Sloan Fellows
June 29, 2020, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Remembering Robert D. Tripp 1927-2020
June 29, 2020, Berkeley Physics

Making Quantum "Waves" in Ultrathin Materials
June 23, 2020, Theresa Duque, Berkeley Lab News

Berkeley's ATLAS Group Continues Research Interactions Online
June 18, 2020, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News

Eden McEwen Awarded SPIE Scholarship
June 11, 2020, Berkeley Physics

Undergraduate Student Advisor Kathy Lee Retires
June 8, 2020, Berkeley Physics

Mechanical Shop Manager Warner Carlisle Retires
June 3, 2020, Berkeley Physics

Maggie Gee: From Berkeley Physics to WWII Pilot
June 2, 2020, Katie Hafner, New York Times

Gael Flores: From Sheet Metal Worker to Physicist
June 2, 2020, Ivan Natividad, Berkeley News

Black Hole Paradoxes Reveal a Fundamental Link Between Energy and Order
May 29, 2020, Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine 

Daya Bay Reactor Experiment Continues to Generate Data
May 29, 2020, Glenn Roberts, Jr., Berkeley Lab News

CUORE Experiment Carries on Despite Pandemic
May 29, 2020, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News

Lanzara, Orenstein Awarded Moore Foundation Grants
May 28, 2020, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

COVID-19 Detector with Berkeley Physics Roots
May 21, 2020, Theresa Duque, Berkeley Lab News

Arduino Kits Developed for Physics 111A During Online Instruction
May 20, 2020, Katherine Gong, Berkeley Physics

Study Challenges Reports of Low Fatality Rate for COVID-19
May 6, 2020, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Could Dark Matter Be Hiding in Existing Data?
May 5, 2020, Glenn Roberts, Jr., Berkeley Lab news

Remembering George Trilling 1930-2020
May 4, 2020, Berkeley Physics

Team Develops Device That Could Advance Spintronics
May 1, 2020, Theresa Duque, Berkeley Lab News

QubeSat Experiment Gets Green Light For Launch
May 1, 2020, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Congratulations Eliot Quataert and R. Ramesh
April 30, 2020, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Marjorie Shapiro, Chung-Pei Ma Elected as Members of AAAS
April 30, 2020, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Simca Bouma, Sam Kohn: Respect is Part of Research
April 28, 2020, Anna Vlasits, Emily Hartman, Rachel Hood, UC Berkeley

Berkeley Physics Welcomes New Director of Administration
April 15, 2020, Berkeley Physics

Hellman Lab Races to Find Perfect Glass for LIGO
April 6, 2020, Natalie Wolchover and Quanta, The Atlantic

150 Years of Women at Berkeley Physics
April 3, 2020, Sarah Wittmer, Berkeley Physics

Celebrating Women at Berkeley Physics

April 3, 2020, Sarah Wittmer, Berkeley Physics

A Graphene Innovation That is Music to Your Ears
March 26, 2020, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News Center

High-Speed Microscope Captures Fleeting Brain Signals
March 25, 2020, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Graphene: A Talented 2D Material Gets a New Gig
March 25, 2020, Teresa Duque, Berkeley Lab News Center

Berkeley Cosmologists are Top Contenders in Machine Learning Challenge
March 20, 2020, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News Center

Tiniest Particles May Have Saved Us From Complete Annihilation
February 7, 2020, Interactions.org

Berkeley SPS Outstanding Chapter, 2018-2019
February 4, 2020, Society of Physics Students

Particle Physics Turns to Quantum Computing for Big-Data Solutions

January 29, 2020, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News Center

New Display Honors Alumni Nobel Prize Winners
January 22, 2020, Sarah Wittmer, Berkeley Physics

Namrata Ramesh Receives Rhodes Scholarship
January 22, 2020, Rhodes Trust

Merging Old and New Microscopy Yields Best 3D View Inside Cells
January 16, 2020, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Trapped Interferometer in the Top Ten
January 14, 2020, Margaret Harris, Physics World

Luke Long Named Recipient of Nick Cobb Memorial Scholarship
January 13, 2020, SPIE

Tiny Quantum Sensors Watch Materials Transform Under Pressure
January 13, 2020, Theresa Duque, Berkeley Lab News Center

CUORE Underground Experiment Narrows Search for Rare Particle Process
January 9, 2020, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News Center

2019

The Quantum Information Edge Launches
December 20, 2019 to December 21, 2019, Laurel Kellner, Berkeley Lab News Center

Frances Hellman Elected President of APS
December 16, 2019 to December 17, 2019, American Physical Society

Parker Solar Probe First Findings Presented
December 4, 2019 to December 5, 2019, Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News

Modeling the Merger of Two Neutrino Stars
December 12, 2019 to December 13, 2019, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News Center

Director of Administration Anil Moré Retires
December 11, 2019 to December 12, 2019

Upgrades to SNO+ Increase High-Precision Capabilities
December 9, 2019 to December 10, 2019, Energy.gov

Revealing What Cells Actually Look Like
November 26, 2019 to November 27, 2019, Robert Sanders, Berkeley in the News

Linking Atomic Defects to 2D Materials' Electronic Properties
November 20, 2019 to November 21, 2019, Teresa Duque, Berkeley Lab News

Berkeley Physics Highlights Mary K. Gaillard as Part of "150 Years of Women at Berkeley"
November 20, 2019 to November 21, 2019, Devi Mathieu, Physics at Berkeley magazine

Top Candidates for Dark Matter
November 15, 2019 to November 16, 2019, Adam Hadhazy, Discover

Müller Group Develops New Way of Doing Electron Microscopy
November 7, 2019 to November 8, 2019, Nature Methods

Barbara Jacak Receives 2019 Distinguished Scientist Fellow Award
October 16, 2019 to October 17, 2019, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News

Holger Müller and James Analytis Elected APS Fellows
September 19, 2019 to September 20, 2019, APS

Kam-Biu Luk Wins 2019 Future Science Prize
September 10, 2019 to September 11, 2019, Future Science Prize

Alessandra Lanzara One of Seven New Bakar Fellows
September 5, 2019 to September 6, 2019, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Norman Yao Awarded APS Valley Prize
August 27, 2019 to August 28, 2019, APS Physics Press Release

Remembering Frederick Reif
August 26, 2019 to August 27, 2019, GatheringUs

2019 Segrè Interns
July 18, 2019 to July 19, 2019

Ehud Altman, Dung-Hai Lee Receive Moore Foundation Award
July 17, 2019 to July 18, 2019, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

New Multitasking Graphene System Offers New Possibilities
July 17, 2019 to July 18, 2019, Theresa Duque, Berkeley Lab News Center

UC Berkeley's LuSEE Selected for 2021 Moon Landing
July 2, 2019 to July 3, 2019, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

What if Dark Matter is Lighter?
June 10, 2019 to June 11, 2019, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News Center

Physics Awarded Support From Student Tech Fund
June 4, 2019 to June 5, 2019

Remembering Charles Kittel
May 16, 2019 to May 17, 2019

Roger Falcone, Uros Seljak Elected as Members of NAS
April 30, 2019 to May 1, 2019, Kara Manke, Berkeley News

2019 Distinguished Teaching Award
April 24, 2019 to April 25, 2019, Berkeley Center for Teaching & Learning

Kam-Biu Luk Elected as Member of AAAS
April 19, 2019 to April 20, 2019, Aliyah Kovner, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Shining a Light on Crystal Chirality
April 18, 2019 to April 19, 2019, Theresa Duque, Berkeley Lab News Center

Berkeley Physics Graduate Students in Washington!
April 18, 2019 to April 19, 2019

Remembering Geoffrey Chew
April 15, 2019 to April 16, 2019

2019 Grad Slam
April 8, 2019 to April 9, 2019, Berkeley Graduate Division

When Semiconductors Stick Together, Materials Go Quantum
March 7, 2019 to March 8, 2019, Theresa Duque, Berkeley Lab News Center

Can Entangled Qubits be Used to Probe Black Holes?
March 6, 2019 to March 7, 2019, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Remembering Eyvind Hugo Wichmann, 1928-2019
March 5, 2019 to March 6, 2019

Barbara Jacak: "My Favorite Element"
February 22, 2019 to February 23, 2019

Keck Foundation Awards Stephen Leone, Norman Yao
February 14, 2019 to February 15, 2019, W. M. Keck Foundation

American Astronomical Society Awards Dan Kasen, Jennifer Barnes
February 12, 2019 to February 13, 2019

Planned Next-Gen Electron-Ion Collider
February 8, 2019 to February 9, 2019, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab

SWPS Hosts Lunch with Nobel Laureate Donna Strickland
February 4, 2019 to February 5, 2019

E.O. Lawrence, Emilio Segrè, and the first Synthetic Element
January 29, 2019 to January 30, 2019, Kit Chapman, Nature

Kyle Boone Wins Machine-Learning Competition
January 25, 2019 to January 26, 2019, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News Center

Rapid 3D Imaging Allows Anyone to Tour the Fly Brain
January 17, 2019 to January 18, 2019, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Hellman Lab Wins Excellence in Lab Safety Award
January 16, 2019 to January 17, 2019, Berkeley EH&S

Unlocking New Paths Toward High-Temperature Superconductors
January 4, 2019 to January 5, 2019, Theresa Duque, Berkeley Lab News Center

2018

Physics Faculty, Staff Receive Curriculum Enrichment Grant
December 20, 2018 to December 21, 2018, Berkeley Center for Teaching & Learning

UC Berkeley SPS Recognized as 2017-2018 Outstanding Chapter
December 10, 2018 to December 11, 2018

New Quantum Materials Could Take Computers Beyond the Semiconductor Era
December 3, 2018 to December 4, 2018, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

FIONA Measures Mass Number of 2 Superheavy Elements
November 28, 2018 to November 29, 2018, Berkeley Lab News Center

When Neutron Stars Collide
November 12, 2018 to November 13, 2018, Devi Mathieu, Physics at Berkeley

2018 Physics Department Magazine
November 7, 2018 to November 8, 2018

Irfan Siddiqi Discusses Quantum Computing on NBC's Press: Here
November 6, 2018 to November 7, 2018

The Lighter Side of Dark Matter
October 31, 2018 to November 1, 2018, Berkeley Lab News Center

Ming Yi is APS Young Scientist Prize Winner
October 29, 2018 to October 30, 2018, APS IUPAP C10 Young Scientist Prize

New Beginnings for SNO+ Detector
October 25, 2018 to October 26, 2018

Physics Professional Machine Shop Spotlighted
October 23, 2018 to October 24, 2018, John Hickey, Berkeley News

Norman Yao Awarded 2018 Packard Fellowship
October 15, 2018 to October 16, 2018, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Black Holes Ruled Out as Universe's Missing Dark Matter
October 2, 2018 to October 3, 2018, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Physics Congratulates Leroy Apker Awardee
September 27, 2018 to September 28, 2018

Irfan Siddiqi Attends Hearing in DC on Quantum Information Science
September 25, 2018 to September 26, 2018, US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

Berkeley Lab to Build Advanced Quantum Computing Testbed
September 24, 2018 to September 25, 2018, Dan Krotz, Berkeley Lab News Center

Forrest Mozer Awarded John Adam Fleming Medal
September 4, 2018 to September 5, 2018, AGU100

Parker Solar Probe Instruments: FIELDS
August 14, 2018 to August 15, 2018, Robert Sanders, NASA

Podcast: Saul Perlmutter on Dark Energy and His Landmark Co-Discovery 20 Years Ago
August 8, 2018 to August 9, 2018, The Planetary Society

Tying Electrons Down with Nanoribbons
August 8, 2018 to August 9, 2018, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Berkeley Students Awarded AAUW Fellowships
August 1, 2018 to August 2, 2018, AAAUW

Physics Welcomes New Faculty Member Michael Zaletel
July 31, 2018 to August 1, 2018

DOE Announces $75 Million For High Energy Physics Research
July 18, 2018 to July 19, 2018, Energy.gov

Ming Yi Honored as Spicer Investigator
July 13, 2018 to July 14, 2018, SLAC, SSRL

2018 Segrè Interns
July 10, 2018 to July 11, 2018

Joel Moore to Head up New Quantum Center
July 2, 2018 to July 3, 2018, Berkeley Lab News Center

Joseph Kant Retires After 38 Years in Berkeley Physics
June 29, 2018 to June 30, 2018

Berkeley Physics Spearheads Award-Winning New Course for Transfer Students
June 26, 2018 to June 27, 2018

2018 Robert P. Lin Graduate Fellowships
June 15, 2018 to June 16, 2018

Berkeley Lab Physics Researcher Discusses New Higgs Boson Result
June 4, 2018 to June 5, 2018, Berkeley Lab News Center

Welcome Winthrop Williams
May 23, 2018 to May 24, 2018

Planck Collaboration Wins 2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize
May 15, 2018 to May 16, 2018, Linda Vu, Berkeley Lab News Center

Vetri Velan Receives Graduate Instrumentation Research Award
April 30, 2018 to May 1, 2018, Fermilab

Dan Stamper-Kurn Honored
April 30, 2018 to May 1, 2018, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics

Eliot Quataert Elected to AAAS
April 18, 2018 to April 19, 2018, Yasmin Anwar, Berkeley News

Dan McKinsey Weighs in on Doubt Surrounding Dama Experiment Results
April 17, 2018 to April 18, 2018, Natalie Wolchover, The Atlantic

Start of Most Sensitive Search Yet for Dark Matter Axion
April 9, 2018 to April 10, 2018, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

An Improved Method for Antihydrogen Spectroscopy
April 4, 2018 to April 5, 2018

2018 Grad Slam Competition
April 4, 2018 to April 5, 2018, Berkeley Graduate Division

New Detector to Boost Neutrino Physics
March 27, 2018 to March 28, 2018, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Flash-in-the-Pan Supernovas Explained
March 26, 2018 to March 27, 2018, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Raphael Bousso Honored as 2018 Simons Fellow
March 23, 2018 to March 24, 2018, Simons Foundation

Unique Crystals Could Expand the Search for Dark Matter
March 20, 2018 to March 21, 2018, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News Center

Professor Raphael Bousso Discusses Stephen Hawking & More
March 19, 2018 to March 20, 2018, Berkeley in the News

2018 Grad Student Poster Session and Open House
March 15, 2018 to March 16, 2018

APS Video on Nuclear Science Division at LBNL
March 12, 2018 to March 13, 2018

Yao Among 6 Young Faculty Members Named Sloan Research Fellows
February 15, 2018 to February 16, 2018, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Remembering Martin Brent Halpern
February 8, 2018 to February 9, 2018

How the Universe Got it's Bounce Back
January 31, 2018 to February 1, 2018, Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine

Singlet Fission Could Improve Organic Solar Cell Performance
January 24, 2018 to January 25, 2018, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News Center

What is Research?
January 16, 2018 to January 17, 2018

X-Rays Reveal 'Handedness' in Swirling Electric Vortices
January 16, 2018 to January 17, 2018, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News Center

2017

Murayama Awarded Prestigious Research Grant
December 21, 2017 to December 22, 2017, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Hot Bodies Are Attractive
December 8, 2017 to December 9, 2017, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Say Hello to SIMPS
December 4, 2017 to December 5, 2017, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

2017 Physics Department Magazine
November 30, 2017 to December 1, 2017

How Earth Stops High-Energy Neutrinos
November 27, 2017 to November 28, 2017, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News Center

Puzzling New Supernova
November 13, 2017 to November 14, 2017, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Sydney Schreppler Awarded L'Oréal Fellowship
October 12, 2017 to October 13, 2017, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Discovery of Gravitational Waves
October 3, 2017 to October 4, 2017

Quantum Computation to Tackle Fundamental Science
September 26, 2017 to September 27, 2017, Linda Vu, Berkeley Lab News Center

Physics Monopole-y: A Key to a Unified Theory of Everything
September 14, 2017 to September 15, 2017, Aubrielle Hvolboll, Cal Alumni Associaction

Celebrating Women in STEM: Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu
September 5, 2017 to September 6, 2017, University of Missouri-Kansas News

Controlling Traffic on the Electron Highway: Researching Graphene
August 30, 2017 to August 31, 2017, US Department of Energy

Steve Louie Selected as H.C. Ørsted Lecturer
August 21, 2017 to August 22, 2017, Berkeley Lab News Center

Three Physics Staff Members Retire
August 14, 2017 to August 15, 2017

Huey-Wen Lin Shares Her Experience as a Blewett Fellow
August 9, 2017 to August 10, 2017, Morgan Tougas

2017 Robert P. Lin Graduate Fellowships
August 7, 2017 to August 8, 2017

New Simulations May Aid Hunt for Neutron Stars, Black Holes
August 2, 2017 to August 3, 2017, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News Center

Physics Launches New Series 5 Lab Courses
July 20, 2017 to July 21, 2017

Wick Haxton Takes Helm as New Chair of Physics
July 3, 2017 to Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Physics Welcomes 2017 Segrè Students
June 22, 2017 to June 23, 2017

New Discoveries Using Bootstrap
June 20, 2017 to June 21, 2017, Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine

Hitoshi Murayama Named One of the 100 Influencers in the World
May 31, 2017 to June 1, 2017, KAVLI/IPMU

Sense & Sensibility & Science
May 8, 2017 to May 9, 2017

UC Grad Slam Face Off
May 3, 2017 to May 4, 2017, Sharon Page-Medrich, Berkeley Graduate Division

Pioneering Radio Astronomer Harold Weaver Dies at Age 99
May 3, 2017 to May 4, 2017, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

John Clarke Named to the American Philosophical Society
May 2, 2017 to May 3, 2017, American Philosophical Society

New Atomically Layered, Thin Magnet
April 26, 2017 to April 27, 2017, Sarah Yang, Berkeley Lab News Center

The Eternal Sky: A Short Film About Building the Simons Observatory
April 13, 2017 to April 14, 2017, Simons Foundation

Congratulations to Michael Witherell, Roger Falcone
April 12, 2017 to April 13, 2017, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

New Measurements From Daya Bay Reactor
April 5, 2017 to April 6, 2017, Berkeley Lab News Center

Spring 2017 Grad Student Poster Session
March 23, 2017 to March 24, 2017

Help Wanted Finding a New Planet
March 8, 2017 to March 9, 2017, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News Center

Berkeley Physics Partners (BP2) Launched
February 21, 2017 to February 22, 2017

Ahmet Yildiz Awarded Vilcek Prize
February 1, 2017 to February 2, 2017, Vilcek Foundation News

Remembering Art Rosenfeld 1926-2017
January 27, 2017 to January 28, 2017, Julie Chao, Berkeley Lab News Center

Scientists Unveil New Form of Matter: Time Crystals
January 26, 2017 to January 27, 2017, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News,

Symposium Honored Professor John Clarke
January 10, 2017 to January 11, 2017

2016

Ephemeral Antimatter Atoms Pinned Down in Milestone Laser Test
December 19, 2016 to December 20, 2016, Davide Castelvecchi, Nature

Berkeley-Stanford Team Creates System to Visualize Faint Electrical Fields
December 16, 2016 to December 17, 2016, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News Center

Surjeet Rajendran Honored with New Horizons Prize
December 5, 2016 to December 6, 2016, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

A New Theory Asks: Is This How the Solar System Was Formed?
November 29, 2016 to November 30, 2016, Rodney Rafols, iTech Post

Mary K. Gaillard Elected as AAAS Fellow
November 21, 2016 to November 22, 2016

Fall 2016 Grad Student Poster Session
November 18, 2016 to Saturday, November 19, 2016

Remembering Leroy Kerth 1928-2016
November 15, 2016 to November 16, 2016

Sandy Miarecki Honored as Military Veteran at LBNL
November 10, 2016 to November 11, 2016, Keri Troutman, Honoring Military Veterans

Narrowing Down the Search For Dark Photons
November 8, 2017 to November 9, 2017, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News Center

Major Advance in Solar Cells Made From Perovskite
November 8, 2016 to November 9, 2016, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Experiment Provides Deeper Look into the Nature of Neutrinos
October 23, 2017 to October 24, 2017, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News Center

Jonathan Ouellet Awarded APS Dissertation Award
October 18, 2016 to October 19, 2016, APS Physics

Marvin Cohen Awarded Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics
October 17, 2016 to October 18, 2016, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Astronomers Strike Cosmic Gold in Colliding Neutron Stars
October 16, 2017 to October 17, 2017, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Professors Lee, Aganagic, and Wang Elected APS Fellows
October 11, 2016 to October 12, 2016, American Physical Society

Bob Jacobsen Receives Faculty Service Award
October 4, 2016 to October 5, 2016, Berkeley Academic Senate

ALS X-Ray Project Takes a Step Forward
October 3, 2016 to October 4, 2016, Glenn Roberts, Berkeley Lab News Center

Naomi Ginsberg to Lead UC Berkeley's Research Efforts at New Imaging Center
September 29, 2016 to September 30, 2016, Brett Israel, Berkeley News

DOE 40th Anniversary Highlights Research Milestones
September 28, 2017 to September 29, 2017, 40 Years of Research Milestones

Nobel Prize Winner Eric Betzig to Join Berkeley Physics Faculty
September 27, 2016 to September 28, 2016, Brett Israel, Berkeley News

Dan McKinsey Comments on Next Level Dark Matter Detectors
September 26, 2016 to September 27, 2016, Glenn Roberts Jr., Berkeley Lab News Center

Yasunori Nomura Quoted in Wired About Time, Superposition
September 26, 2016 to September 27, 2016, Nick Stockton, Wired

Marvin Cohen Named Citation Laureate
September 23, 2016 to September 24, 2016, Lillian Holmes, The Daily Californian

Remembering Erwin Hahn 1921 - 2016
September 22, 2016 to September 23, 2016

Richard Muller's New Book Explores the Physics of 'NOW'
September 21, 2016 to September 22, 2016, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

4 New Faculty Members Join Berkeley Physics
September 12, 2016 to September 13, 2016

Berkeley Physics Opens New Interdisciplinary Research Center
September 1, 2016 to September 2, 2016

Department of Energy Awards New Computational Center
August 16, 2016 to August 17, 2016, US Department of Energy

Josh Prenot Takes Silver!
August 12, 2016 to August 13, 2016, Rachel Lutz, NBC Olympics

Berkeley Physics Major is Olympic Medal Contenter!
August 10, 2016 to August 11, 2016, Rachel Bachman, The Wall Street Journal

Saul Perlmutter to Speak at World Academic Summit
August 10, 2016 to August 11, 2016, Ellie Bothwell, Times Higher Education

Berkeley Physics Grad Student Attends Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
August 2, 2016 to August 3, 2016, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

LUX Detector Narrows Search for Dark Matter
July 21, 2016 to July 22, 2016, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Erwin Hahn Receives Gold Medal Award
June 30, 2016 to July 1, 2016

Remembering Stanley Mandelstam, 1928-2016
June 29, 2016 to June 30, 2016

Congratulations to Mina Aganagic and Hernan Garcia
June 29, 2016 to June 30, 2016, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Arthur Rosenfeld Awarded Tang Prize 'For Lifelong and Pioneering Innovations'
June 20, 2016 to June 21, 2016, UC Berkeley News

Remembering J.D. Jackson, 1925 - 2016
May 20, 2016 to May 21, 2016

A New Bench is Dedicated in Honor of Charles Townes
May 15, 2016 to May 16, 2016

Congratulations to Our 2016 Graduates!
May 15, 2016 to May 16, 2016

Oskar Hallatschek and Colleagues Report Findings on Microbial Traffic Jams
May 13, 2016 to May 14, 2016, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

$40 Million to Establish Early-Universe Observatory in Chile
May 12, 2016 to May 13, 2016, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Marjorie Shapiro Part of Campus Community Celebrating Art
May 11, 2016 to May 12, 2016, Gretchen Kell, Berkeley News

Robert Birgeneau Named 2016 Vannevar Bush Awardee
April 21, 2016 to April 22, 2016, Public Affairs, Berkeley News

Physics Alum Josh Miele Helps Design an Inclusive World
April 20, 2016 to April 21, 2016, Holly J. McDede, Cal Alumni Associaction

Daniel Rokhsar Leads Study to Improve Cassava Production
April 18, 2016 to April 19, 2016, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Remembering Howard A. Shugart 1931- 2016
March 24, 2016 to March 25, 2016, Berkeley Physics Department

SPS Honors Women in Physics
March 17, 2016 to March 18, 2016

In Celebration of International Women's Day, 2016
March 8, 2016 to March 9, 2016, ATLAS

Berkeley SPS Wins Outstanding Chapter
March 7, 2016 to March 8, 2016, Society of Physics Students

New Physics Reading Room and Collaboration Center Officially Dedicated
February 25, 2016 to February 26, 2016

Sloan Foundation Honors Hernan Garcia, Surjeet Rajendran
February 23, 2016 to February 24, 2016, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Moore Foundation Grant for Dan Kasen, Eliot Quataert
February 18, 2016 to February 19, 2016

Saul Perlmetter to Lead Dark Energy Team
February 18, 2016 to February 19, 2016, Glen Roberts, Jr., Berkeley Lab News Center

Mina Aganagic and Ahmet Yildiz Awarded Miller Professorships
February 17, 2016 to February 18, 2016, Miller Institute

Steve Boggs to Serve as Chair of Physics for Two More Years
January 27, 2016 to January 28, 2016

Chris McKee Honored for Lifetime Contribution to Astronomy
January 21, 2016 to January 22, 2016, Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley News

Yasunori Nomura Named New Director of the BCTP
January 1, 2016 to January 2, 2016

NuSTAR Makes Astronomy Magazine Top 10
January 1, 2016 to January 2, 2016, Liz Kruesi, Astronomy magazine

2015

Dan McKinsey Presents New Info From LUX Experiment
December 14, 2015 to December 15, 2015, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Something's Always Happening in the Donald A. Glaser Lab
December 14, 2015 to December 15, 2015

Berkeley Physics Launches Equity and Inclusion Webpage
December 11, 2015 to December 12, 2015

Petr Horava Honored with Neuron Award in Czech Republic
December 11, 2015 to December 12, 2015, Neuron Fund for Support of Science

Holger Mueller, Dmitry Budker Win Catalyst Award
December 8, 2015 to December 9, 2015, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Zettl Group Receives R&D 100 Award
November 17, 2015 to November 18, 2015, Dan Krotz, Berkeley Lab News Center

Breakthrough Prize Winners Announced
November 9, 2015 to November 10, 2015, Robert Sanders, New York Times

Steve Louie Awarded MRS Materials Theory Award
November 4, 2015 to November 5, 2015, Materials Research Society

2015 Physics Magazine
November 1, 2015 to November 2, 2015

Roger Falcone Receives the John Dawson Award
October 28, 2015 to October 29, 2015, Berkeley Lab News Center

Congratulations to Ming Yi!October 13, 2015 to October 14, 2015, L'Oreal USA

Remembering Professor Emeritus Eugene D. Commins
September 26, 2015 to September 27, 2015

Ahmet Yildiz Awarded Early Career ASCB-Gibco Emerging Leaders Prize
September 24, 2015 to September 25, 2015, EurekaAlert

Kam-Biu Luk Delivers News From Daya Bay
September 11, 2015 to September 12, 2015, Jon Weiner, Berkeley Lab News Center

One Woman's Journey in Physics
August 17, 2015 to August 18, 2015

Berkeley Physics is #1 in 2015 Shanghai Ranking
August 15, 2015 to August 16, 2015

Physics Welcomes New Faculty Member Matt Pyle
August 4, 2015 to August 5, 2015

Jeff Neaton Co-Develops Single-Molecule Diode
August 3, 2015 to August 4, 2015, Colin Jeffrey, Gizmag

A Bench and Courtyard for a Nobel Prize Moment
July 28, 2015 to July 29, 2015

Is This the Only Universe? Yasunori Nomura Quoted
July 28, 2015 to July 29, 2015, Laura Dattaro, Symmetry

New Theory Says Dark Matter Acts Like Well Known Particle
July 22, 2015 to July 23, 2015, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe

Ashvin Vishwanath Named Simons Investigator
July 19, 2015 to July 20, 2015, Philanthropy News Digest

Bats, Dolphins, and Now Humans!
July 6, 2015 to July 7, 2015, Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley News Center

Marvin Cohen Uses Theorist's Tools to Conjure the Future
June 26, 2015 to June 27, 2015, Sabin Russell, California Alumni Associaion magazine

The 2015 Emilio Segrè Interns
June 22, 2015 to June 23, 2015

Physics Welcomes New Faculty Member Daniel McKinsey
June 11, 2015 to June 12, 2015, Miles O'Brien; Kate Tobin, National Science Foundation

BEPP Physicists Preserve Native American Voices
June 10, 2015 to June 11, 2015, Sarah Charley, Symmetry

ATLAS Experiment at CERN Gears Up
June 3, 2015 to June 4, 2015, Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley News Center

A New Theory to Explain the Higgs Mass
May 27, 2015 to May 28, 2015, Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine

Holger Müller Receives Two Prestigious Early Career Awards
May 11, 2015 to May 12, 2015, Anne Brice, UC Berkeley News Center

Barbara Jacak Inducted into ARCS Hall of Fame
May 7, 2015 to May 8, 2015, ARCS

James Analytis Awarded DOE Early Career Grant
May 6, 2015 to May 7, 2015, Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley News Center

Star Explosion is Lopsided, Finds NASA's NuSTAR
April 30, 2015 to May 1, 2015, NASA

Congratulations to Carlos Bustamante and John Clarke
April 21, 2015 to April 22, 2015, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Ultra-Cold Neutrino Experiment Yields Successful Results
April 9, 2015 to April 10, 2015, Kate Greene, Berkeley Lab News Center

The Physics Reading Room and Collaboration Center
March 30, 2015 to March 31, 2015

2015 Grad Student Poster Session and Open House
March 19, 2015 to March 20, 2015

Does Axion Dark Matter Exist?
March 13, 2015 to March 14, 2015

Imaging Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution
March 9, 2015 to March 10, 2015

Marvin L. Cohen Interaction Area Now Complete
March 6, 2015 to March 7, 2015

Congratulations to James Analytis and Naomi Ginsberg!
February 23, 2015 to February 24, 2015, Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley News Center

New Pathway to Valleytronics
January 30, 2015 to January 31, 2015, Lynn Yarris, Berkeley Lab

Quantum Computer as Detector Shows Space as not Squeezed
January 28, 2015 to January 29, 2015, Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley News Center

A Life Dedicated to Science
January 27, 2015 to January 28, 2015, Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley News Center

Obituaries for Charles Townes
January 27, 2015 to January 28, 2015

Congratulations to Reinhard Genzel on 3 Impressive Awards!
January 12, 2015 to January 13, 2015, The Paris Observatory Awards

2014

2014 Physics Magazine
December 31, 2014 to January 1, 2015

Switching to Spintronics
December 17, 2014 to December 18, 2014, Lynn Yarris, Berkeley Lab News Center

Congratulations to Stuart Bale and Steve Boggs, APS Fellows!
December 10, 2014 to December 11, 2014, APS Physics

Fall 2014 Grad Student Poster Session
November 14, 2014 to November 15, 2014, Flickr

Physics Student Groups Host Inspirational Speaker Dr. Vivienne Ming
November 12, 2014 to November 13, 2014

Saul Perlmutter Among Scientists Receiving 2015 Breakthrough Prize
November 9, 2014 to November 10, 2014, Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley News Center

Raphael Bousso Interviewed by NOVA
November 7, 2014 to November 8, 2014

Steve Stahler Discusses Changes in our Atmosphere
November 6, 2014 to November 7, 2014

Big Physics, Big Ideas, and Big Accomplishments!
November 5, 2014 to November 6, 2014, University of California BIG GIVE

Investigating the Role of Long-Distance Travel in the Spread of Epidemics
November 4, 2014 to November 5, 2014, Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley News Center

Creating the Coldest Cubic Meter in the Universe
October 28, 2014 to October 29, 2014, Kate Greene, Berkeley Lab

Marvin L. Cohen to Receive the Materials Research Society's Highest Honor
October 28, 2014 to October 29, 2014, Materials 360 Online

POLARBEAR Detects Curls in the Universe's Oldest Light
October 21, 2014 to October 22, 2014, Susan Brown, Phys.org

Professor Hitoshi Murayama Gives UN Address on Science and Peace
October 20, 2014 to October 21, 2014, Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley News Center

Joe Orenstein Selected as Moore Experimental Investigator
October 1, 2014 to October 2, 2014, Moore Foundation

Holger Müller Selected as 2015 APS Francis M. Pipkin Award
September 19, 2014 to September 20, 2014

James Analytis Selected as Moore Fellow in Materials Synthesis
September 4, 2014 to September 5, 2014, Moore Foundation

Ramamoorthy Ramesh Named ALD for Energy Technologies
August 29, 2014 to August 30, 2014, Berkeley Lab

Physics at Berkeley #1 in Shanghai Rankings
August 19, 2014 to August 20, 2014, 2014 Shanghai Ranking

Biophysicist Oskar Hallatschek Receives Simons Investigator Award
July 24, 2014 to July 25, 2014, Simons Foundation

Charles Townes Discusses His Laser Discovery
July 22, 2014 to July 23, 2014, Robert Sanders, Berkeley Lab News Center

Dan Stamper-Kurn & Team Detect Smallest Force Ever Measured
June 26, 2014 to June 27, 2014, Lynn Yarris, Berkeley Lab News Center

Bruno Zumino, Inventor of Supersymmetry, Dies at 91
June 24, 2014 to June 25, 2014, Robert Sanders, Berkeley News

Uros Seljak Weighs in About the Detection of Gravitational Waves
June 19, 2014 to June 20, 2014, Katy Abbott, The Daily Californian

Frances Hellman Named Dean of Math & Physical Science, L&S
June 11, 2014 to June 12, 2014

George Smoot: We Mapped the Embryonic Universe
April 19, 2014 to April 20, 2014, Zoe Corbyn, The Guardian/The Observer

Ashvin Vishnawath Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
April 15, 2014 to April 16, 2014, Guggenheim Foundation

The Elegance of Physics
April 13, 2014 to April 14, 2014, Matthew Francis

Bob Jacobsen Presents Fun with Physics
April 12, 2014 to April 13, 2014, UC Berkeley Campus Life

Condensed Matter Professor Feng Wang is a 2013-14 Bakar Fellow
March 4, 2014 to March 5, 2014

Learn More About the UC Berkeley Physics Department!
February 26, 2014 to February 27, 2014, WebsEdgeEducation

FOUND: The Holy Grail of High Energy Astrophysics!
February 19, 2014 to February 20, 2014, Robert Sanders, Berkeley Lab News Center

Where Are All the Women?February 11, 2014 to February 12, 2014, The Daily Californian

Does Antimatter Fall Up?
February 11, 2014 to February 12, 2014, Salon

Professor Alex Zettl Wins the 2013 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
January 23, 2014 to January 24, 2014, 2013 Foresight Institute

2013-2012

2013 Physics Magazine
December 31, 2013 to January 1, 2014

2012 Physics Magazine
Monday, December 31, 2012 to January 1, 2013

2011 Physics Magazine
January 1, 2012 to January 2, 2012