Sophia Noya | Staff Writer Physics students and professors alike had some friendly competition at the Stocker Astroscience Center during the annual Society of Physics Students and Sigma Pi Sigma trivia night last Thursday. Forming four teams, attendees put to test their knowledge of astronomy, physics, history and more. “It’s a team bonding event,” said […]
Alex Castro | Contributing Writer Decades worth of research and discoveries lead us toward a new era of space exploration technology. Aided by the leadership of one particular astrophysicist, NASA was able to create a new way in which we view space. John Mather is an astrophysicist with an avid background in engineering and physics. […]
By: Yeskanisayka Urbina/Staff Writer Being Florida’s first female physics professor in 1987 at the University was an accomplishment that Yesim Darici did not intentionally plan as she pursued her passion for physics. Darici is the first woman from a STEM field to hold the position of the director for the Center for Women’s and […]
By: Nicole Stone/Assistant News Director The future of computing goes far beyond the next Macbook, according to an associate physics professor. “We are on the verge of a second quantum mechanic revolution,” said Hebin Li, head researcher of the Li Research Group at the University. Quantum information processing, the focus of Li’s research, is […]
