Category Archives: WIPAC

Not So Fast, Supernova: Highest-energy Cosmic Rays Detected in Star Clusters

The highest-energy cosmic rays come from subatomic interactions within star clusters, not supernovae, say Michigan [...]

WIPAC alum Carlos Argüelles is a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow

IceCube collaborator and Harvard physics professor Carlos A. Argüelles Delgado has been selected as a [...]

Welcome, Assistant Professor Lu Lu!

On January 1, Professor Lu joined the Department of Physics and IceCube. Most recently, she [...]

Welcome, Assistant Professor Ke Fang!

On January 1, astroparticle physicist Ke Fang joined WIPAC and the UW–Madison Physics Department as [...]

IceCube Collaboration awarded 2021 Rossi Prize

The 2021 Bruno Rossi Prize was awarded to Francis Halzen and the IceCube Collaboration “for the discovery [...]

WIPAC and IceCube are at Madison’s Holiday Fantasy in Lights!

Have you seen WIPAC's display at the Holiday Fantasy in Lights show in Madison, WI? [...]

IceCube at ScienceWriters 2020

Like the vast majority of conferences and meetings this year, ScienceWriters 2020 went virtual in [...]

How do astronomers test-drive a telescope?

Graduate student Leslie Taylor helped fine-tune a high-energy gamma-ray telescope this summer. Detecting the Crab [...]

WIPAC stands for diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice

We are outraged by the death of Mr. George Floyd. 

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 [...]