Author Archives: Laurel Norris

BigData project uses gaming hardware to tackle radio data challenges

Large physics experiments are often developed in remote areas: the vast plains of Argentina, a [...]

HAWC explores gamma-ray astronomy

The above image depicts HAWC as it will appear when construction is complete in 2014. [...]

WIPAC education partners announce classroom engineering initiative

KSTF teachers learning about the IceCube drill during 2009  summer training at the UW PSL [...]

Fall 2013 high school Internship program opens

Last January, eight Madison-area high school students began an internship at Wisconsin’s only astrophysics research [...]

Maruyama named APS Woman Physicist of the Month

Reina Maruyama, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and faculty member at the Wisconsin [...]

High Energy HAWC Results at APS

Image: HAWC Collaboration As covered in a recent BBC article, Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophyics Center [...]

IceCube Scientist M. Krasberg wins UW-Madison Cool Science Image

Mark Krasberg While work at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory focuses on the edges of the [...]