News

(Aug. 19, 2022)
A&S Physicist Awarded NSF Grant to Continue Gravitational Wave Detector ResearchProfessor Stefan W. Ballmer and his students are collaborating with researchers from MIT to increase detector sensitivity – a key to observing some of the Universe’s most energetic events.

(Aug. 10, 2022)
A Home-Grown Path for Future PhysicistsSyracuse City School District students get a taste for college-level research alongside A&S faculty through the Syracuse University Research in Physics (SURPh) paid internship.

(June 27, 2022)
Two A&S Professors Receive Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement AwardsThe awards will support physicist Eric Coughlin’s astrophysical research into deep tidal disruptions and psychologist Jillian Scheer’s work with at-risk LGBTQ populations.
(May 9, 2022)
All they need are space and time: Graduate students bring physics to local classrooms with outreach programMerrill Asp and Sarthak Gupta lead the charge to build bridges between the Syracuse University physics community and local middle- and high-school students.

(April 19, 2022)
Viewing a Microcosm Through a Physics LensResearch could have implications on human health and medicine.

(Feb. 21, 2022)
(Bio)Sensing Protein InteractionsA team of A&S researchers have designed a highly sensitive sensor capable of identifying proteins in solution down to a single molecule.

(Jan. 27, 2022)
A&S Remembers Kameshwar C. Wali, Longtime Physics Professor and Friend of Both the Sciences and Humanities at Syracuse UniversityWali, who taught at Syracuse for nearly 30 years, was a renowned theoretical physicist, author and humanist.
(Dec. 15, 2021)
Physics Student HighlightsRead about recent thesis defenses, awards and news highlights from students in the physics department.