Category Archives: News

Week 38 at the Pole

With the sun now up, outdoor preparations for summer activity at the South Pole station [...]

Week 37 at the Pole

Sunrise is slowly coming along at the South Pole, with some refracted light showing over [...]

Week 36 at the Pole

The landscape at the South Pole continues to brighten, making it perhaps harder to ignore [...]

Week 35 at the Pole

Although the sunrise is still not officially here, the South Pole is enjoying a period [...]

Francis Halzen wins 2015 Balzan Prize

Francis Halzen, IceCube PI and professor at the UW–Madison. Image: Zig Hampel-Arias, WIPAC. Francis Halzen, [...]

Our summer research experience working on PINGU with researchers at Universität Mainz

The “IRES: U.S.-European International Research Experience-Particle Astrophysics for Undergraduates” program, funded by NSF and led [...]

Applications open for high school astrophysics internship

Image: WIPAC. After a successful summer program, WIPAC is pleased to offer an academic year [...]

Week 34 at the Pole

The South Pole station’s windows were exposed last week, after being covered up (decoratively, we [...]

Week 33 at the Pole

The sun is not yet up, but the sky is definitely brightening in its direction. [...]

DECO and IceCube summer 2015 student internships

Four high school students joined the DECO development team at WIPAC for a seven-week internship.