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  • UW-Milwaukee Physics Graduate Student Featured on Fox 6 Now Regarding Upcoming Solar Eclipse

    August 17, 2017

    UW-Milwaukee Physics Graduate Student Casey McGrath was featured on Tuesday, August 15th, regarding Monday’s upcoming solar eclipse. The hotly-anticipated eclipse will be celebrated by the Manfred Olson Planetarium in a NASA-sponsored viewing event from 11AM to 3PM on the UWM... Read more →

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    August 15, 2017

    The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Department of Physics was showcased last evening on TMJ4, highlighting the Manfred Olson Planetarium’s upcoming eclipse viewing and show, “The Sun’s Disappearing Act”, along with research performed by Biophysics on 3-D viral imaging and the first-ever... Read more →

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Physics Colloquium: 3:30 PM Start in Lapham Hall 160
Quasar Absorption Lines: From Reionization to Dark Matter
George Becker, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, UC-Riverside

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Physics Colloquium: 3:30 PM Start in Lapham Hall 160
New Approaches to Structure Determination from Uncrystallized Biomolecules
Jeffrey Donatelli, Lawrence Berkeley Lab

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Cosmology, Cell Phones & Video Games: Mapping Dark Energy with CHIME
Prof. Keith Vanderlinde, Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto

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Physics Colloquium: 3:30 PM Start in Lapham Hall 160
How Black Holes Dine Above the Eddington “Limit” Without Overheating or Excessive Belching
Dr. Shane Davis, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Virginia

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