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Professor David Gerdes Named Next Physics Department Chair Professor Gerdes is the 16th Chair to serve the department.

Pushing boundaries: Nobel prize winner on science literacy and lasers Nobelist Donna Strickland visited U-M campus recently as part of the Ta-You Wu lecture series.

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Six U-M Physics Students Awarded Competitive National Fellowships

Graduate students Alec Kirkley and Shreya Sutariya and 2019 graduates Polina Abratenko, Tali Khain, Noah McNeal, and Robert Weinbaum win prestigious national fellowships

LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector Moved Nearly a Mile Underground

U-M is a member of the collaboration, which will provide the most sensitive search for dark matter interactions to date

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