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News and Announcements

Category: Physics & Astronomy

Senator Zwicker with the Physics Club

State Senator Andrew Zwicker visits Physics Club

Senator Zwicker discussed his career from plasma physics to politics and answered questions from physics students

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Physics & Astronomy hosts spring meeting of the NJ Space Grant Consortium

Join us for a poster session by Space Grant research students and a talk on neutron stars by Prof. Shaon Ghosh.

student and mentor discuss experiments in nuclear physics "clean room"

Professor Earns NSF CAREER Grant to Advance Nuclear Physics Research

Grant will also provide access to high-level research for students typically underrepresented in laboratory science

Marc Favata speaking with attendees after his Space Talk

Listening for Cosmic Clues

As a Liberty Science Center guest astronomer, Montclair State University Professor Marc Favata explored the ways we can ‘listen’ to space and time

Dr. Kent Leung in front of some of his lab equipment

Professor Kent Leung awarded $436k grant to study neutrons

The Award will support construction of key components for observing the electric dipole moment of the neutron

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Physics students win best poster competition at LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration meeting

Samantha Benjamin in the lab

How Student Researchers Can Change the World

Student scientists presented their research at the Fall 2021 Casabona Future Scientists Competition

Dr. Shaon Ghosh

Professor Ghosh awarded $150k NSF grant to connect gravitational waves and electromagnetic astronomy

Shaon Ghosh, an assistant professor in the Physics & Astronomy Department, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant. 

Faculty in the Montclair State University LIGO research group.

Scientists Observe Collisions of Neutron Stars with Black Holes

Three Montclair State professors are part of international team behind first detection of long-sought class of stellar mergers

CSAM graduates at their commencement ceremony with Rocky

CSAM Caps off Week of Commencements

The College held the final commencement exercises for Montclair State University’s Class of 2021!

Casabona Future Scientists Competition Zoom room

Mario M. Casabona Future Scientists Competition Recap

The event, held virtually for the first time, showcased the depth of knowledge and preparedness of our students

Dr. Marc Favata

A roar, a crash and a major scientific tool that was a piece of New Jersey’s roots is gone

Dr. Marc Favata discusses the Arecibo Observatory, a radio telescope in Puerto Rico, that recently collapsed due to damages.