The results of the ninth edition of the IceCube Impact Awards were announced this week at IceCube’s spring collaboration meeting in Brussels, Belgium. During the ceremony, IceCube spokesperson Ignacio Taboada gave each recipient a certificate and mug to commemorate their achievements. The awardees are Jessie Micallef (Michigan State University), Thomas McElroy (University of Alberta), Tianlu […]
This article was adapted from a story originally published by UCLouvain. IceCube collaborator Gwenhaël de Wasseige has been awarded a Francqui Start-Up Grant by the Francqui Foundation and her future institution, the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), where she will join the staff of the Research Institute in Mathematics and Physics (IRMP) in September 2021. This prestigious […]
This article originally appeared on the University of Canterbury website. IceCube collaborator and UC Physics Professor Jenni Adams was presented with the 2021 Dan Walls Medal, the top award of the New Zealand Institute of Physics (NZIP), at a ceremony in Wellington last night. The medal is presented to a Kiwi physicist who is judged to have made […]
The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai, India, have awarded the 2021 Homi Bhabha Medal and Prize to Francis Halzen, the Hilldale and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and principal investigator of IceCube, for his “distinguished contributions […]
IceCube collaborator and Harvard physics professor Carlos A. Argüelles-Delgado is the recipient of a 2021 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Astroparticle Physics. Young Scientist Prizes recognize the contributions of early career physicists within the subfields of each commission of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). The accolade consists of a certificate, medal, […]
IceCube collaborator Frank G. Schroeder, assistant professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Delaware and the Bartol Research Institute, has been selected as a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow in Physics as announced today. According to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Sloan Research Fellowship is one of the most prestigious […]
IceCube collaborator and Harvard physics professor Carlos A. Argüelles Delgado has been selected as a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow in Physics. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation publicly announced this year’s fellows today. The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. The two-year fellowships are awarded every […]
The 2021 Bruno Rossi Prize was awarded to Francis Halzen and the IceCube Collaboration “for the discovery of a high-energy neutrino flux of astrophysical origin.” The Bruno Rossi Prize is awarded annually by the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society. The 2021 HEAD awards were announced last night at the 237th AAS Meeting, which is being […]
On November 7, 2019, the Nishina Memorial Foundation announced that Prof. Shigeru Yoshida and Prof. Aya Ishihara were selected as the recipients of the 2019 Nishina Memorial Prize, the oldest and most prestigious physics award in Japan. Yoshida and Ishihara lead the IceCube group at Chiba University. […]
The Commission on Astroparticle Physics (C4) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) has awarded the 2019 Yodh Prize to Francis Halzen, PI of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. […]