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Faculty selected to lead N150 strategic planning

Feb 19, 2019 -Professor Ken Bloom is chosen to be apart of the N150 Strategy Planning Team.

Retired Husker astronomer celebrates 50th anniversary of pulsar discovery

Feb 8, 2019 -The beams of light registered on Jan. 15, 1969, celestial winks from the heart of a cosmic crab.

Student studying in the library — Love Library

5,300-plus Huskers named to fall Deans' List/honor roll

Feb 6, 2019 -21 physics majors were named to the Dean's List for the fall semester of the 2018-2019 academic year.

Obituary: Edgar A. Pearlstein

Feb 1, 2019 - Longtime professor of physics, Edgar A. Pearlstein died Jan. 15.

Why kicking a field goal is harder than it looks

Jan 31, 2019 - Kicking a field goal is tough. But why? Hint: It's physics.

SciPop Talks! to explore space law, comic-book physics

Jan 17, 2019 - The SciPop Talks! series returns with discussions on space law and comic-book physics.

Joe Lutes in Jorgensen Hall — Joe Lutes worked on a two-stage vaccum pump in a lab in Jorgensen Hall.

35 years later, Husker prepares to earn degree

Dec 14, 2018 – Joe Lutes, 53, will be finishing his college degree 35 years in the making.

This rendering illustrates the theoretical orientations of electron spin (red arrows) at various energy levels (multicolored surface) in a material studied by Nebraska physicists. The near-uniform orientation of those spins would be ideal in a spintronic device that can process spin orientation as bits of information.

Researchers ID promising key to performance of next-gen electronics

Nov 13, 2018 – Two Nebraska physicists, Evgeny Tsymbal and Lingling Tao identified a material whose crystalline structure might better sustain an electron's spin.

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