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Polarized He-3 Target Cell Used for Measuring the Charge Distribution of the Neutron in Spring 2006 (photo credit: Alan Gavalya)
2008 Bibliographic Society of the University Virginia Book Collecting Contest, First Prize (photo credit: Al Tobias)
Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
“Does that painting have an Electric Dipole Moment?!?” – ERTS in January 2016 regarding Paterson Ewen’s painting “Thundercloud as Generator #2” at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Enhanced Nuclear Schiff Moments in Pear-Shaped Atomic Nuclei
“Hanabi is a cooperative game, where the players do not play against each other but work together towards a common goal.” (game designed by Antoine Bauza and awarded the 2013 Spiel des Jahres, image credit: https://rnrgames.com/hanabi)
Spinlab in November 2015 (photo credit: Chuck Gaus)
High Pressure Rinse of Niobium High Voltage Electrodes for Ra EDM in July 2017 (photo credit: Roy Ready)
A Model for Writing (developed with Matt Rossi throughout 2017 as a part of PHY 451: Advanced Lab)
Fry Fang, Ben Loseth, & the prototype Single Atom Microscope in May 2018
Professor Thelma Irene Arnette in 1971 (photo credit: MSU Archives)
“Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured.” – Peter J. Feibelman (image credit: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/peter-j-feibelman/a-phd-is-not-enough/9781549189111/)
Early Career Researchers Should Receive A Yearly Cost-Of-Living Adjustment & A Living Wage!
2023 Donald F. Koch Quality in Undergraduate Teaching Award (with MSU Interim President Teresa Woodruff, photo credit: MSU)
LEGO: The Evolution of Stem (item #21355 based on the “Knowledge is Power” entry by UK-based accountant Daniel Bradley, image credit: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/the-evolution-of-stem-21355)
Isotope Harvesting @ FRIB
An Efficient Source of Radioactive Molecules?
Spinlab in March 2025 (photo credit: Sydney Grant)
Towards a Modern Royce-Bloembergen Experiment
Candidate Pear-Shaped Atomic Nuclei
Extremely Low-Lying Parity Doublet in Pa-229?
“We ain’t found shit!” – Tim Russ (amateur astronomer and member of the Los Angeles Astronomical Society) at the Capital City Comic Con in July 2024 (photo credit: Grandpa)
2025 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigators