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Abra Geiger ’26 has won the 2026 University Relations Campus-Community Leadership Award. news.cornell.edu/stories/202… @CornellCAS

Advocate for physics, literacy wins Campus-Community Leadership Award | Cornell Chronicle

For her volunteer outreach encouraging local children to learn about physics and reading, Abra Geiger ’26 has won the 2026 University Relations Campus-Community Leadership Award.

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Next-generation telescope science highlighted at April workshop as.cornell.edu/news/next-gen…
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New understanding of insect flight points way to stable flapping-wing robots | Cornell Chronicle

Researchers created a computational model that shows the effect of insects’ morphology on stabilizing their flight, which could provide a blueprint for designing flapping-wing robots.

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Professor Dan Ralph elected to National Academy of Sciences. news.cornell.edu/stories/202…

Ralph, Schlom elected to National Academy of Sciences | Cornell Chronicle

Physicist Dan Ralph, Ph.D. ’93, and materials scientist Darrell Schlom are Cornell’s 2026 electees to the National Academy of Sciences, the academy announced April 28.

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Cornell Physics made its debut at the RIT Physics Olympiad. 🥇 Julian Choi, Liyu Pan & Abra Geiger — 1st place 🥈 Rohan Joshi & Leah Tang — 2nd place 🏅 Jennifer Wang — 5th place, solo, as a freshman So proud of these six. 👏 #CornellPhysics #SPS
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On this episode of Radio Physics, Sasha Fielder sits down with renowned theoretical physicist Csaba Csáki to explore the frontiers of modern particle physics. kdnk.org/podcast/radio-physi…

Radio Physics | Csaba Csáki

On this episode of Radio Physics, Sasha Fielder sits down with renowned theoretical physicist Csaba Csáki to explore the frontiers of modern particle physics.From the high-energy collisions at the...

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Georg Hoffstaetter de Torquat, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, is leading a $2.9 million Department of Energy grant project to support a bold venture: teaching artificial intelligence (AI) to operate particle accelerators. as.cornell.edu/news/teaching…
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"It's not that this is the magic material with Majorana fermions that's going to build a quantum computer," said Brad Ramshaw, associate professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, who led the Cornell team." phys.org/news/2026-04-soundw…

Soundwaves settle debate about elusive quantum particle

It was a head-spinning discovery. In 2018, researchers in Japan claimed to find concrete evidence of an elusive particle, a Majorana fermion, in a quantum spin liquid called ruthenium trichloride....

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Congratulations to the Muon g‑2 collaborations! Decades of groundbreaking precision physics from Muon #gminus2 experiments — beginning @CERN, advancing @BrookhavenLab, and culminating at Fermilab — are honored with this award. news.fnal.gov/2026/04/fermil…

Fermilab experiment receives prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab received the prestigious Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics for its precision measurement of the muon.

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"Niemack’s telescope and instrument optical designs have also been utilized in the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Simons Observatory." as.cornell.edu/news/cornell-…
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What an amazing #CornellGivingDay! It wouldn’t have been possible without your generosity. Thank you for making a difference for @CornellPhysics students and faculty!
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Testing large language models on scientific literature news.cornell.edu/stories/202…

Testing large language models on scientific literature | Cornell Chronicle

Cornell physicists and Google researchers engaged a panel of 12 human experts to test the ability of six LLM systems to understand scientific literature at the level of a specialist.

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Nine Students Advance to 3MT Finals

Nine Cornell research degree students will be advancing to the final round of the 2026 Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT), having competed in a pool of 23 students in the…

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"Debanjan Chowdhury, associate professor of physics, and Jennet Dickinson, assistant professor of physics, in the College of Arts and Sciences, will" each receive at least $875,000 over five years to support their scientific endeavors." news.cornell.edu/stories/202…

Four on faculty to receive DOE early-career grants | Cornell Chronicle

Four Cornell faculty members are among 99 researchers across the U.S. who have been awarded grants by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of its Office of Science Early Career Research Program.

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"The school’s collaboration includes seven Department of Energy Office of Science laboratories, one DOE National Nuclear Security Administration laboratory and two universities, including Cornell."
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John Byrd has been appointed as the new director of the U.S. Particle Accelerator School! USPAS is the nation’s premier training program in accelerator science and engineering. news.fnal.gov/2026/02/john-b…
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Peer recognition crucial for success in physics research news.cornell.edu/stories/202…

Peer recognition crucial for success in physics research | Cornell Chronicle

Even when women receive similar amounts of recognition from peers as men for excelling in physics classes, they perceive significantly less peer recognition, new research has found.

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Natasha Batalha '13, physics, has received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), " the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers." whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upd…
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