Notre Dame Physics & Astronomy

Department of Physics & Astronomy, the College of Science, at the University of Notre Dame

[Notre Dame Science @NDscience]

Doctoral student Mohamed El Gazzah has been awarded a highly competitive @doescience Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Fellowship, supporting a year of research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (@ORNL), in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

https://t.co/CUZkjTcTwv

[Notre Dame Science @NDscience]

Join us for the 5th annual Christmas Lecture with @TAMU’s Dr. Tatiana Erukhimova, whose viral physics demos have amazed audiences worldwide.

Expect clouds, levitating trains, flying wheels & “potato physics”—all real science, no magic!

📅 November 19
https://t.co/2IdyQDW3tL

[Notre Dame Science @NDscience]

Experience a dynamic flight through space in our newly renovated, state-of-the-art Digital Visualization Theater!⭐️🔭

📅 Friday, 10/17
⏰ 3:30 pm
📍 100 Jordan Hall of Science

https://t.co/3jnwqrJMpV

[Notre Dame Science @NDscience]

Marc Osherson, @NDPhysics assistant professor, has been honored with a @NSF CAREER Award — one of the most prestigious recognitions for early-career faculty in the United States.

https://t.co/cz2D2MUpfk

[Notre Dame Science @NDscience]

Congratulations to the 6 College of Science faculty members recognized as 2025 Faculty Award winners by the Office of the Provost!

https://t.co/rkDWTx164v

[Notre Dame Science @NDscience]

Scientists at @NotreDame synthesized a material that exhibits a rare and promising form of magnetism known as altermagnetism, which could reshape how computers store and process information in the future, a new study in Nature Communications shows:

https://t.co/WRf4tBDqxY

[Notre Dame Science @NDscience]

Laura Fields, associate professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for her research studying the properties of fundamental particles called neutrinos.

https://t.co/t8aOGECHb0

[Notre Dame Science @NDscience]

Dr. Michelle Thaller, former assistant director for science communication at @NASAGoddard Space Flight Center, will present this year's Christmas Lecture.

📅 Friday, Dec. 6
⌚️ 6:30 pm
📍 Century Center in Downtown South Bend

⭐️ More: https://t.co/LlXoEZtO9d

[Florent Ducrozet @floducrozet]

Understanding low-temperature plasma interactions with a aqueous medium requires the development of a robust method for solvated electrons quantification! That’s what we worked on between @NDPhysics and @ICPlabOrsay and our latest article is out ! 🤝🏻

https://t.co/GCuUEhtqEa

[Notre Dame Science @NDscience]

Explore the invisible Universe with the James Webb Space Telescope and learn about infrared light at the 2024 Christmas Lecture!

📅 Friday, Dec. 6
⌚️ 6:30 pm
📍 @centurycenter in @DTSouthBend
🎄 https://t.co/1cIhmqM8Kq
🍪 Free cookies & hot chocolate bar

[Notre Dame Science @NDscience]

One Month Away! 🎄

Make plans to join us at the 4th annual Christmas Lecture, this year in downtown #SouthBend at the @centurycenter!

✨ https://t.co/1cIhmqLAUS

[Notre Dame Science @NDscience]

Professor John LoSecco was among a handful of researchers recently honored by @APSphysics, which named the Morton Salt Mine in Painesville, Ohio, the “birthplace of neutrino astronomy” and designated it as a historic landmark.

https://t.co/nrmAdweUos

[Notre Dame Science @NDscience]

John LoSecco, @NDPhysics professor, has discovered a novel way to potentially identify the presence of dark matter in space by using very precise celestial clocks: A type of neutron star known as a pulsar.

https://t.co/XhfgYsQf0K

[University of Notre Dame @NotreDame]

Physics professor Graham Peaslee has developed a portable PIGE unit that will make it easy to screen for #PFAS in the field.

With a particle accelerator in the hands of people who need it, Peaslee sees an opportunity to make real change: https://t.co/i6Urd4lXc4

[Notre Dame Science @NDscience]

#PFAS: the Forever Problem

@NotreDame is tackling "forever chemicals," identifying environmental impacts, developing new ways to measure and manage contaminated water supplies, and exploring new methods of treatment.

https://t.co/jgMApbjQZs

[Notre Dame Science @NDscience]

Promising new battery recycling method 🔋

A new patent-pending system uses a chemical reaction that produces its own heat to regenerate the core materials in spent lithium-ion batteries.

https://t.co/kQOBf3xPYz

[Notre Dame Science @NDscience]

“We believe our new method is more efficient, environmentally friendly and cost-effective than current lithium-ion battery recycling techniques."

— @NDPhysics' Khachatur Manukyan

🔋 https://t.co/kQOBf3xPYz

[Notre Dame Science @NDscience]

"The true nature of dark matter is a mystery. This research sheds new light on the nature of dark matter and its distribution in the Milky Way and may also improve the accuracy of the precision pulsar data."

— @NDPhysics Professor John LoSecco

https://t.co/mMVBBLcZms

[Notre Dame Science @NDscience]

Congratulations to the three College of Science faculty members who were honored with Faculty Award recognition by Provost @john_t_mcgreevy!

⭐️ Graham Peaslee
⭐️ Jennifer Robichaud
⭐️ Kelly M.H. Young

https://t.co/MTF6xwi8cx

[Notre Dame Science @NDscience]

Roman Gerasimov, a @NotreDame Society of Science Fellow, has won an International Astronomical Union 2023 PhD Prize for his research in stellar physics.

Gerasimov will present his research at the @IAU_org General Assembly in South Africa in August.

https://t.co/wftx7FI37Y