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News Archive

2008

• NIU scientists playing role in development of LHC detector
• Dr. Robert Rosner receives honorary Ph.D. at December Commencement
• 2007 Eaton-Miner Scholarship Recipients!
• Proton Therapy Center Ground Breaking
• Donna Kubik explains Dark Energy Survey
• NIU physicist Susan Mini lands $1.4 million NSF award
• Detector R&D at CERN testbeam in ILC NewsLine article
• Jerry Blazey takes temporary assignment with ILC management at DOE
• Fermilab Physics of the Week - Betwixt quarks and leptons
• Mike Fortner new state rep

2006-2007

• Proton Therapy Ground Breaking
• D0 discovers single top quark production
• Leon Lederman lectures at NIU on science education
• NIU mourns loss of physicist Courtlandt Bohn
• Proton therapy facility moves forward
• Detcetor R&D for the linear collider
• Haunted Physics Lab
• Roland Winkler & Dimitrie Culcer publish spintronic development
• NIU physics whiz wins $10,000 scholarship
• Zhili Xiao honored for ultra-fast hydrogen sensor
• 2006 Physics Graduate Student Fellowships 

2005-2006

• Court Bohn named Presidential Research Professor
• NIU names new science advisor
• NIU WYP2005 Activities Highlighted
• 2006 NIU Physics Olympics Announcement
• Top quark discovery 10 year anniversary
• The Hydrogen Economy

2004-2005

• Sievert and Hedin receive NIU Foundation grant for outreach activities
• Physics outreach program eyes new frontier
• Blazey settles into second term as DZero spokesperson
• Studies on electric polarization open potential for tinier devices
• NIU student invited to meet with Nobel Laureates
• Research Helps Open Door to Nanoscale Machines
• NIU Physicists are part of Fermi Team Publishing in Nature
• NIU's Haunted Physics Lab promises thrilling, chilling learning experience
• Finding the art behind the science of nanocrystal synthesis
• NIU launches Institute for Neutron Therapy at Fermilab
• Research of NIU astrophysicist has sponsors beaming
• NIU gets grant to partner with Argonne on fuel cell research

2003-2004

• 2003 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Alexi Abrikosov, Speaks at Special NIU Physics Colloquium
• NIU Observatory hopes to capture quintuple planetary display
• NICADD Celebrates $2 million Grant
• Department of Physics Hosted High School Physics Olympics
• Kids Haunt NIU Physics Lab
• Beyond the Inner Limits
• Blazey Named Spokesperson of DZero Experiment at Fermilab
• NIU Announces Creation of two High Tech Laboratories
• NIU, Argonne Team up on Nanotechnology
• NIU's Clyde Kimball Named Among Most Influential People in Tech Industry
• NIU launches physics outreach program

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