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Meet Student Physicist Polina Abratenko Check out our new "Meet Our Majors" website section which will highlight various physics undergraduates throughout the year.

U-M Physicists Contribute to Latest LIGO Black Hole Discoveries Above: circle heights and their proportional radii indicate individual black hole masses measured in different LIGO detections of binary black hole mergers. Also shown are black hole masses inferred from X-ray measurements of nearby binary systems containing black holes and an ordinary star.

Physics Department Wins LSA Student Government Department Award of Excellence for the 2016-2017 Academic Year The Physics Department received the most votes along with glowing comments from students praising the Department for the genuine commitment to the students' academic success and well-being. These results were derived from a student survey through the Student Advisory Council to Departmental Affairs (SACDA) of LSA Student Government.

Welcome to University of Michigan Physics Join us as we strive to provide an incisive and enriching education for our students by making lasting contributions at the forefront of human understanding and by communicating the excitement of scientific discovery to our fellow citizens.

U-M Astrophysicist Katherine Freese Explains the Search for the Universe’s ‘Dark Stars’ In the BBC Future video, Astrophysicist Katherine Freese explains how we might find these stars – and how their discovery might change everything we know about the Universe we live in.

New Dwarf Planet Solar System's 2nd Most Distant University of Michigan Physics Professor David Gerdes with his student research team: Undergraduate Tali Khain, Graduate Student Stephanie Hamilton, and Undergraduate Lynus Zullo

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Professor Henriette Elvang Selected for a College of Literature, Science, and Arts John Dewey Award

Congratulations to Professor Elvang for her ongoing educational commitment to physics undergraduate students!

U-M Physics Alum Alex Nitz Helps Detect Colliding Black Holes in Space

Alex Nitz worked with U-M Physics Professor Keith Riles in his undergraduate career, earned his Ph.D. at Syracuse, and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover, Germany.

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