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A team of physicists and education researchers including Professor and JILA Fellow Heather Lewandowski and Postdoctoral Research Associate Shams El-Adawy, is spearheading the largest study of its kind exploring how the United States can meet the needs of the rapidly growing quantum technology industry.

This summer, 10 undergraduates came to ̽����Ƶ from across the country to conduct cutting-edge research through the ̽����Ƶ Physics and JILA Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program.Now in its 38th year on the Boulder campus, the

To alumnus Gal Weitz (EngrPhys, ApMath’22), Boulder was a “dream destination” for undergrad. Now working in quantitative finance, Weitz shares how his education at ̽����Ƶ set him up for success in the finance world.

IDEX, the interstellar dust experiment, is scheduled to launch aboard NASA's IMAP mission on Wednesday, Sept. 24. Professor and LASP Scientist Mihály Horányi serves as the IDEX Instrument Lead.

Infleqtion, a ̽����Ƶ quantum technology spinout founded by Professor and JILA Fellow Dana Anderson, has announced a merger to go public, becoming the 10th "unicorn company" out of ̽����Ƶ.

Professor Mihály Horányi is the principal investigator of IDEX, a space dust instrument built at ̽����Ƶ's Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics that will launch on board a NASA spacecraft on Sept. 23.

A team at ̽����Ƶ including physics graduate student Hanqing Zhao and Professor Ivan Smalyukh, have made a curious state of matter in which particles move constantly—like a clock with hands and gears that spin forever, even without electricity to keep them going.

Returning to college for a second degree takes grit and determination – and Kerrie Ellzey (Psyc’12, Phys’17) had both.After completing her degree in psychology from ̽����Ƶ, Ellzey taught preschool for several years before

Stephanie McNamara, geophysics graduate student, is conducting research with Nathalie Vriend, associate professor at the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at ̽����Ƶ. Among other questions, the lab explores how dunes evolve over time.