Category Archives: News
South Pole Science at UW-Barron County
Jim Madsen at the South Pole. Image: J. Roth, NSF On most days, the South [...]
Week 2 at the Pole
A weird-looking contraption hanging from a frame, three kneeling people huddled on the ground, a [...]
Madison-area teacher and students headed to Antarctica
Students and teachers reviewing equipment that will be taken along on their Antarctic expedition. Image: [...]
WIPAC spring high school internship program begins
Three area high school students working together on an LED project. Image: L. Norris, IceCube [...]
Week 1 at the Pole
What’s new at the Pole? Well, some new people are there—it’s still summer, so groups [...]
Week 53 at the Pole
Out with the old, in with the new. This might pertain to many things as [...]
Week 52 at the Pole
The Race Around the World, an approximately two-mile course at the South Pole, is one [...]
Week 51 at the Pole
The summer season isn’t long at the South Pole, from about late October through early [...]
WIPAC professor Stefan Westerhoff named 2013 APS fellow
Stefan Westerhoff, University of Wisconsin–Madison physics professor and faculty member at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle [...]
Week 50 at the Pole
It was a week filled with movement outdoors. First up, snow needed to be moved. [...]