Category Archives: News
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.
Week 32 at the Pole
The previous week’s feature image showed the South Pole Telescope with the moon setting behind [...]
Antarctic neutrino detector firms up cosmic neutrino sighting
Sorting through the billions of subatomic particles that zip through its frozen cubic-kilometer-sized detector each [...]
Week 31 at the Pole
It’s still dark at the South Pole, with sunrise not for a while yet. So [...]