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Save the Date — Departmental Awards Ceremony: Celebrating students, faculty, and staff
The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites faculty, staff, students, and friends of the department to attend the Departmental Awards Ceremony: Celebrating Students, Faculty, and Staff on April 23, from 1:10–3:00 p.m. in Spurgeon’s Club.
This annual ceremony is an opportunity to come together as a community to recognize and celebrate the exceptional accomplishments, dedication, and service of our students, faculty, and staff.
The Golden Path to Chaos: Adiabatic Twists
Galileo Unbound — Purdue Physics and Astronomy’s David Nolte explores how the golden mean helps trace the path from order to chaos through adiabatic twists and the Standard Map.
Tongcang Li receives Bement Award for innovative quantum research
Purdue PhysAstro's Tongcang Li has been chosen to receive the 2025 Arden L. Bement Jr. Award. The award recognizes Purdue University faculty for recent outstanding contributions in pure and applied science and engineering.
NASA’s Hubble Revisits Crab Nebula to Track 25 Years of Expansion
NASA — A quarter-century after its first observations of the full Crab Nebula, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken a fresh look at the supernova remnant. The result is an unparalleled, detailed look at the aftermath of a supernova and how it has evolved over Hubble’s long lifetime. A paper detailing the new Hubble observation is published in The Astrophysical Journal. PhysAstro's Danny Milisavljevic was a coauthor of this research.
Teaching Excellence Awards 2026 - Charles B. Murphy Award winner, David Nolte
David Nolte, Edward M. Purcell Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy in the College of Science, winner of the Charles B. Murphy Award. The Charles B. Murphy Award, Purdue's highest undergraduate teaching honor, recognizes up to five recipients (nominated through individual colleges) each year as models in excellent undergraduate education.
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