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Hundreds of educators, students, scientists, policymakers, industry partners and community leaders gathered in November for STEM Together 2025: The STEM Education Action Symposium. Led by the Center for STEM Learning (CSL), the event was designed to advance collective action in STEM education and workforce development within Colorado’s strong innovative ecosystem.

NASA has announced that instruments designed and built by researchers at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at CU ������ý���� have been selected for development for the Artemis IV mission, due to launch in 2028. Xu Wang, senior researcher at LASP at lecturer of physics, serves as principal investigator of the proposal, dubbed DUSTER (Dust and plaSma environmenT survEyoR).

What time is it on Mars? Physicists Neil Ashby and Bijunath Patla have calculated a precise answer for the first time, and their results were recently published in The Astronomical Journal. Ashby, professor emeritus of physics and physicist at NIST, formerly administered the CU Professional Research Experience Program, connecting students and postdoctoral scholars with researchers at NIST. Patla was previously a CU PREP researcher and is now a NIST Physicist in the Time Realization and Distribution Group.

Students heading to class in the Duane Physics and Astrophysics building now have a glimpse into the world’s largest particle detectors in a new mural painted by astrophysics senior Veronica Keff.

Professors Joe Berry, Michael McGehee, Michael Toney, and Jun Ye have been recognized by Clarivate as "Highly Cited Researchers" for demonstrating “broad and significant influence in their fields.”

Professor and JILA/NIST Fellow Jun Ye has once again been recognized as one of the world’s most influential scientists. For the 12th year in a row, Ye has earned a place on the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list, an honor reserved for researchers whose work ranks among the top 1% of citations globally across their fields.

A conference for physics students, organized by physics students. On Saturday, October 4, about 120 undergraduates from universities across Colorado and Wyoming put their research on display at the Colorado Undergraduate Physics Conference in ������ý����.

Noah Finkelstein has been named a Distinguished Professor, CU’s highest honor for faculty across the four-campus system. Finkelstein was selected for his exceptional contributions to research, teaching and service.

Mihály Horányi, a ������ý���� professor of physics, has been named the 2025 College Professor of Distinction by the College of Arts and Sciences in recognition of his exceptional service, teaching and research.

Undergraduate physics major Arabella Quane received an “Outstanding Oral Student Presentation” award at the recent American Physical Society 4 Corners Section Conference held at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.