Author Archives: Madeleine O'Keefe
Winter at the Whipple Observatory: Leslie Taylor’s four months commissioning the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope
University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate student Leslie Taylor spent four months in Arizona recently. Her research [...]
UW–Madison scientists play instrumental role in proving viability of innovative gamma-ray telescope
Scientists in the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consortium have detected gamma rays from the Crab [...]
UW–Madison astrophysicists donate computing resources to aid COVID-19 research
Some of WIPAC's computing resources are beingused to simulate protein folding of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible [...]
Physics department honors three WIPAC graduate students
Every year, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Physics Department offers a number of awards to their [...]
Summer at the South Pole: 2019-2020 season recap
This summer season, IceCube sent more than 30 people from 12 institutions to the Pole [...]
Off the ice: a Q&A with our 2018-19 winterovers, Kathrin and Benjamin
Our winterovers for the 2018-2019 season, Kathrin Mallot and Benjamin Eberhardt, returned from Antarctica last [...]
WIPAC researchers find that ultra-high-energy neutrinos are detectable by IceCube after all
IceCube researchers at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC), a research center of the [...]
Project update: CHIPS detector successfully deployed in Minnesota lake
CHIPS, the CHerenkov Detectors in Mine Pits experiment, successfully deployed their detector in a flooded [...]
Meet Jocelyn Argueta, our 2019 PolarTREC educator
IceCube’s South Pole crew will have another pair of helping hands (and flippers) this summer [...]
Meet Shaun O’Boyle: Photographer of Antarctica
American photographer Shaun O’Boyle is about to embark on his third Antarctic expedition. His unique [...]