Many students work the night shift to get through law school, but Colin Littlefield’s late-night job at the Notre Dame Observatory has led to a one-in-a-billion discovery of a rare type of star, a Wolf-Rayet. Littlefield discovered the exceptional star, named WR 142b, this past summer, and he and his colleagues announced the discovery in a paper accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal…

Each year the Department of Physics recognizes undergraduate students with a variety of awards. This year’s winners are Julie Cass, Thomas Catanach, Michelle Consiglio, and Nancy Paul.

Julie Cass has been selected to receive the Outstanding Physics Major Award. This award is given to a physics graduate selected by a number of criteria including academic performance, contributions to the major, and potential for future success. It is the highest honor the Department of Physics can award to one of its graduates.…

Graduating physics major Nancy Paul was selected to present at the Final Colloquium of the Glynn Family Honors Program on Thursday, April 26. Her talk was titled Nuclear Masses, Neff and Nucleosynthesis. She is advised by Prof. Ani Aprahamian.

The Glynn Family Honors Program at the University of Notre Dame brings talented undergraduates into sustained and life-changing contact with distinguished scholars who inspire and prepare them for premier graduate and doctoral programs, for successful careers, and for lives of service.…

The Kaneb Center Graduate Student Program is pleased to announce the annual awards for outstanding graduate student teachers and teaching assistants. This program recognizes graduate students who have demonstrated excellence in the classroom, laboratory, or in another significant instructional capacity.…

The recently-organized Graduate Physics Students (GPS) group held its first Spring Conference on April 19 in Nieuwland Hall. The meeting included eight oral presentations – two each from astrophysics, condensed matter physics, high energy physics, and nuclear physics – and two poster sessions.…