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Recap from our spring physics & quantum research expo 🔬🚀

https://www.colorado.edu/physics/2026/04/27/physics-research-expo-highlights-undergrad-research-industry-connections

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Congratulations to physics graduate student Alex Doner, named the inaugural recipient of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics Frank J. Crary Fellowship! 💫

The award recognizes exceptional graduate students pursuing research in planetary space environments. Doner leads the Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter (SDC), he’s developing the Lunar Meteroid Monitor for a future lunar mission, and is involved in the recent Interstellar Dust Experiment (IDEX). 🚀

Congratulations, Alex!

https://lasp.colorado.edu/2026/05/22/lasp-awards-inaugural-frank-j-crary-fellowship-to-alex-doner/

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LASP awards inaugural Frank J. Crary Fellowship to Alex Doner The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) has announced Alex Doner as the inaugural 2026 recipient of the Frank J. Crary Endowed Graduate Fellowship, an annual award recognizing exceptional graduate students pursuing research in planet...

Last week, our physics staff toured the Dust Lab on East Campus and even got a special performance of Ode to Joy from Professor Beale 🚀🎶

Just a few highlights from our annual physics staff retreat. We’re building community, sparking curiosity, and learning together. 💫

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Here’s to you, Class of 2026! 🎓✨

Whether you earned a bachelor’s in physics or engineering physics, or a master’s or PhD in physics, your curiosity and perseverance brought you to this moment.

We can’t wait to see how you shape the future… wherever your path takes you next. 💫

P.S. we’ll share a link to all of the physics recognition ceremony photos next week 🖤💛


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