SBU Professor Jennifer Cano Receives SUNY Chancellor’s Horizon Award

This award honors early career tenured and tenure track faculty whose scholarly or creative activities have already achieved significant recognition and crucially, hold strong promise for field-defining impact in the future.

Welcome to the Department!

We are happy to welcome three new faculty members to the department this semester: Assistant Professor Yin-Chen He, Assistant Professor Han Ma, and Lecturer Ross Corliss!

3rd Annual Undergraduate Colloquium

Congratulations to the undergraduate students who presented at the Undergraduate Colloquium on April 15 and received the Barry Barish Undergraduate Research Travel Award: Ryan Brady, Nikhil Keer, Kevin O'Shea, and Zahin Shahrior!

SBU Researchers Share 2025 Breakthrough Prize

Members of the SBU Department of Physics and Astronomy were recently among the recipients of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in recognition of their experimental collaborations with CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

P&A Participation in the Stony Brook Giving Day

This year, we have decided to participate in the Stony Brook Giving Day for the first time. Please consider donating to the two projects associated with our department.

Jennifer Cano wins the Stony Brook Discovery Prize

We would like to congratulate Associate Professor Jennifer Cano for winning the $200,000 Stony Brook Discovery Prize! She gave an outstanding talk last week at the Discovery Prize competition.

The 30 Year Anniversary of the Discovery of the Top Quark

30 years ago, on March 2, 1995, the CDF and DZero collaborations announced the discovery of the top quark! The Stony Brook High Energy Physics group led by Prof. Paul Grannis was the leading university group in the DZero collaboration.

Megan McDuffie receives 2025 John Marburger III Fellowship for Science, Engineering and Mathematics

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It is our pleasure to share the news that Megan McDuffie, a graduate student in the Physics & Astronomy department, has received the 2025 John Marburger III Fellowship for Science, Engineering and Mathematics!

This fellowship is funded by an endowment made in the memory of Dr. John H. Marburger, III, former president of Stony Brook University, director of Brookhaven National Laboratory, science advisor to President George W. Bush, and Vice President for Research at Stony Brook.

The fellowship provides funding support for women undertaking advanced graduate study in the physical sciences, engineering, or mathematics.

Selections for this prestigious award are based on scholastic merit and contributions to the Stony Brook University community.

Three SBU Physics Students Honored with SUNY GREAT Award

Three students in the SBU Physics & Astronomy Department were among the 38 recipients of the 2025 SUNY Graduate Research Empowering and Accelerating Talent (GREAT) Award: Ivy Huang, Nicole Khusid, and Benjamin Levine! They join the 2024 SUNY GREAT winner from our department, Melissa Rasmussen, in receiving this recognition.

Nicole Khusid: Gravitational Waves

Melissa Rasmussen (2024): Type Ia Supernovae

Benjamin Levine: Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Ivy Huang: Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics

More information about the award and its recipients can be found here (2025) and here (2024).

In Memoriam: Mike Simon

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We are saddened to share the news that Mike Simon, who was a faculty member in the astronomy group, has recently passed away.

We were informed that there will not be a memorial service.

You can find a note that his wife Anne wrote about Mike here.

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