Julne 23 - 27, 2025
2025 Belle II Summer Workshop

July 20-25, 2025
EDISON 23 : 23rd International Conference on Electron Dynamics in Semiconductors, Optoelectronics and Nanostructures 

March 28, 2024
Virginia Tech SPS Chapter Hosts Zone 4 SPS Conference

February 14, 2024

Undergraduate Yannick Pleimling receives 2024 Phi Kappa Phi Medallion Award

June 26, 2023:
Physics' Leo Piilonen Honored as Alumni Distinguished Professor

December 8, 2022

Professor Patrick Huber appointed to Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel

January 28, 2022:

Professor Michel Pleimling recognized as a 2021 Distinguished Referee for Europhysics Letters.

April 22, 2021

Virginia Tech Physics Department 2021 Virtual Awards Ceremony

June 4, 2019
Profs. Lara Anderson, Ed Barnes, James Gray, Giti Khodaparast, and Kyungwha Park have promotions approved by Board of Visitors.

May 23, 2019
Professor Lara Anderson part of panel on string theory at World Science Festival 2019

April 29, 2019
Leo Piilonen and Diane Walker-Green receive 2019 Faculty/Staff Awards.

April 1, 2019
VT Physics Alumna Erica Grant launches startup company Quantum Lock

March 18, 2019
Professors Economou and Minic named American Physical Society Outstanding Referees for 2019

February 20, 2019
Virginia Tech PhysTEC (Physics Teacher Education Coalition) program, led by John Simonetti and Alma Robinson, wins national 5+ Club award.

February 18, 2019
Professor Leo Piilonen receives 2019 SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award

February 15, 2019
Professor Ed Barnes receives National Science Foundation CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) Award

February 12, 2019
Alumna Annalisa Pawlosky and her company Google provide gift to support Ladies of Robeson.

January 23, 2019
Professors Minic and Takeuchi (along with Prof. Edmonds, Farrah, and Ng) awarded second prize in the 2018 Buchalter Cosmology Prize competition for their paper: "Modified Dark Matter: Relating Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and Baryonic Matter

January 21, 2019
Sophomore Julie Nguyen wins a best poster award at the 2019 Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) at the College of William and Mary

January 4, 2019
Graduate students Shadisadat Esmaelli and Bart Brown and Professor Michel Pleimling featured in Physical Review E Kaleidoscope

December 2, 2018
Musical physics student Monty Campbell featured in Collegiate Times

November 9, 2018
Professor Patrick Huber and alumnus YuenKeung (Joseph) Hor are co-signers of a letter on "Neutrino Physics for Korean Diplomacy" published in Science magazine.

October 24, 2018
"Sophomore Julie Nguyen wins best poster award at WoPhys'18"

September 26, 2018
Professor Mariani's group contributes to newly commissioned CERN ProtoDUNE detector.

September 19, 2018
Physics Department hosts 6th Virginia Soft Matter Workshop on September 22, 2018

August 12, 2018:
Center for Neutrino Physics hosts NuFact 2018 from August 12-18

July 31, 2018
VT Physics Alumnus Chris Martin wins Local PhysTEC Teacher of the Year Award.

July 13, 2018
Patrick Huber coauthors article in CERN Courier.

June 05, 2018:
Professor Jonathan Link comments for National Public Radio on recent MiniBooNE results.

June 01, 2018:
Professor Camillo Mariani part of observation of significant excess of events in the MiniBooNE detecctor.

March 19, 2018
Oscar Macias and Shunsaku Horiuchi Reveal Origin of Mystery Gamma Rays in Nature Astronomy Publication

March 2, 2018
Graduate student Shadisadat Esmaeili has been selected as an Associate of the Academy for Graduate Teaching Assistant Excellence, in recognition of her strong commitment to excellence in teaching and creating affirming learning opportunities in higher education.

February 26, 2018:
Professor Giti Khodaparast has been awarded a 2018 International Association of Advanced Materials Medal for her notable and outstanding contribution to the field of Advanced Energy Materials and Technology.

February 7, 2018:

Professor Nahum Arav was quoted in a national news story about the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launch.

February 1, 2018:
Alma Robinson has been awarded a 2017-2018 College of Science Certificate of Teaching Excellence.

Jan. 31, 2018: 
Professor Nahum Arav was interviewed by Roanoke TV stations about todays  "Super Blue Blood Moon" event.  Check it out at:
WSLS Channel 10: Rare super blue blood moon visible in Virginia Wednesday morning
WSET Channel 13: VT physicists excited for blue moon lunar eclipse Wednesday morning