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Professors Chris Walter and Michael Troxel start their terms as the Chair and the Associate Chair of the Physics department. Congratulations to them both and wishing both of them all the best in their new leadership roles.

Duke Cosmology Group members held a watch party at the Wallace Wade football stadium to celebrate the reveal of the first look images from NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Members of the Duke community interested in space studies joined the group in the celebration, along with the members of the local media.

Prof. Eve Vavagiakis, Jenna Moore and Yi Wang in the background celebrate the arrival of the dilution refrigerator at the new lab. Looking forward to all the cool experiments to come!

Congratulations to Erik Peterson for successfully defending his PhD thesis, and for a clear and well-delivered talk!

The OpenUniverse2024 same-sky image simulations as would be seen by Roman Space Telescope and Rubin Observatory was featured on the NASA website. Read the press release here.

Congratulations to Daniel Scolnic, who has been named one of the most highly cited researchers of 2024, according to the Web of Science ranking by Clarivate Analytics. Read more here

Read the profile that Trinity College of Arts and Sciences ran here.

Congratulations to Dennis Wu for receiving the 2024 Jocelyn Bell Burnell outstanding leadership scholarship awarded by the Society of Physics Students (SPS). Each year, one student in the entire US is awarded this scholarship based on their academic performance and leadership.

Read the profile that Trinity College of Arts and Sciences ran here.

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