Mikel Holcomb, associate professor in the Eberly College Department of Physics and Astronomy, said she expects her team's research into photon detector technologies to influence NASA missions, including the possible 2030 launch of the far-IR Probe as well as the development of technology for the Great Observatories — four observatories, floating in space, that conduct astronomical studies over visible, gamma-ray, X-ray and infrared wavelengths.
An
instrument to be jointly designed and built at the University of Colorado
Boulder (CU Boulder) and the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) has been
selected to fly on NASA’s next mission to study Earth’s upper atmosphere.
The Integration Bee is an annual competition open to all WVU and local high school students, consisting of a 40-minute written qualifier and a single-elimination blackboard tournament.
West Virginia University recently announced the President's List (4.0 GPA) and Dean's
list (3.5-3.9999 GPA) for the 2021 fall semester. An impressive 24 physics/astro
majors made the
lists. The names of those students are shared below. Please take
a moment to congratulate them for their achievement!
Congratulations to Professor Aldo Romero on being named an Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy in recognition of his many contributions to advancing our department's mission.
A new study featured on the cover of the March 2021 issue of Physics of Plasmas is the first published research from WVU’s PHASMA experiment in the Center for Kinetic Experiment, Theory and Integrated Computation Physics.
