Awards – Page 3

2015 GNN Dissertation Prize awarded to van Santen and Yáñez

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Staff

Jakob van Santen, a former graduate student working on IceCube at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) and currently a postdoc at DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) in Zeuthen, and Juan Pablo Yáñez, also working on IceCube at DESY in Zeuthen, were recently awarded a Dissertation Prize from the Global Neutrino Network. This is the first year that the GNN Dissertation Prize has been awarded. It recognizes young postdoctoral candidates who have written an outstanding thesis and contributed significantly to their projects. […]

Dawn Williams named APS Woman Physicist of the Month

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Silvia Bravo

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Dawn Williams, Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, has been named the February Woman Physicist of the Month by APS’s Committee on the Status of Women in Physics. […]

UW physicist Francis Halzen receives American Ingenuity Award

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Staff

Francis Halzen, the University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist who was the driving force behind the giant neutrino telescope known as IceCube at the South Pole, has been named a winner of the 2014 American Ingenuity Award. […]

Puerto Rican STEM educator Armando Caussade selected as 2014 IceCube PolarTREC teacher

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Laurel Norris

Through a partnership with PolarTREC, Armando Caussade, a STEM educator from Puerto Rico, will travel to the South Pole during the 2014–2015 polar season to support maintenance work on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. […]

DPG awards Hertha Sponer Prize to Anne Schukraft

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Laurel Norris

Former IceCube PhD student Anne Schukraft is being honored today by the German Physical Society, or Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG), for her contribution to the measurement of the neutrino energy spectrum. […]

Nathan Whitehorn a 2014 ‘Young Star’ in astrophysics

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Silvia Bravo

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Nathan Whitehorn, a postdoctoral researcher on the IceCube project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named a “Young Star” by the Division of Astrophysics of the American Physical Society (APS). […]

IceCube awarded the 2013 Breakthrough of the Year

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Staff

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The IceCube project has been awarded the 2013 Breakthrough of the Year by the British magazine Physics World. The Antarctic observatory has been selected for making the first observation of cosmic neutrinos, but also for overcoming the many challenges of creating and operating a colossal detector deep under the ice at the South Pole. […]

IceCube researcher receives young scientist award

Posted on July 9, 2013 by Laurel Norris

Aya Ishihara recognized at ICRC 2013 by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics for her discovery of two extremely high-energy neutrinos. […]

Grad students win in Erice, Italy

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Staff

At this year’s 18th International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics in Erice, Italy, IceCube graduate students Anne Schukraft, RWTH Aachen University, and Marcos Santander, University of Wisconsin-Madison, were recognized for their analysis and presentations. […]

IceCube Scientist M. Krasberg wins UW-Madison Cool Science Image

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Staff

Public interest in penguins recently provided IceCube researcher Mark Krasberg of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with an edge in the UW-Madison Cool Science Contest where he won an award for his photo of an emperor penguin leaping out of the water.

We sat down with Mark to ask him where he got the image and to find out what he does. […]