Diversity Hero of the Year

Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:16:00 BST

At the Herald Diversity Awards ceremony on Thursday October 12th, Professor Lyndsay Fletcher, of the School of Physics and Astronomy, was winner of the category of ‘Diversity Hero of the Year’

Nobel Prize for Gravitational Wave Research

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 16:52:00 BST

Gravitational wave physicists at the University of Glasgow are celebrating the announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Taught MSc Programmes Induction on Friday 15 September

Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:14:00 BST

The taught MSc Programmes Induction will be on Friday 15 September in Room 323 of the Kelvin Building (School of Physics and Astronomy), University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

Breakthrough in imaging magnetisation in magnets

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 13:26:00 BST

A new imaging technique has helped scientists make a breakthrough in how they visualise the directions of magnetisation inside an object.

European Journal of Physics Outstanding Reviewers of 2016

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 13:13:00 BST

Matthew Trainer, a technician involved in the student teaching laboratories in the School of Physics and Astronomy has been named as one of the outstanding reviewers of 2016 for the Institute of Physics (IOP) journal the European Journal of Physics...

Best Presentation Award for Monifa Phillips at Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group meeting in Manchester

Fri, 14 Jul 2017 10:26:00 BST

Graduate researcher awarded prize for oral presentation

Novel use of a particle detector for electron microscopy

Wed, 01 Mar 2017 10:53:00 GMT

In December, a multiple research group team from the School of Physics and Astronomy commercially demonstrated the novel use of particle physics detection technology...

Silver medals in the International Student 'University Physics Competition'

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:59:00 GMT

Two physics-3 student teams were awarded silver medals in the recent '2016 University Physics Competition'. The competition is an international contest for undergraduate students....

Big award for microscopic achievements

Mon, 06 Feb 2017 13:50:00 GMT

A technician from the School of Physics and Astronomy has been named as the winner of a major award presented to the ‘unsung heroes’ of microscopy.

"Destination: Space" shortlisted for Blue Peter Book Award

Thu, 05 Jan 2017 11:58:00 GMT

A book authored by Glasgow PPT's Christoph Englert has been shortlisted as one of the three candidates in the facts-based category of this year’s Blue Peter Book Awards.

Nuclear physics and cultural heritage

Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:59:00 BST

A major review of the use of nuclear physics techniques in the study, characterisation and preservation of cultural heritage has been published by the EPS Nuclear Physics Division, in which our Prof Douglas MacGregor played a leading role.