IceCube Research Center names first Bahcall Fellowship winners
The IceCube Research Center (IRC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is thrilled to award the first-ever Bahcall Fellowship for neutrino astronomy to Claudio Kopper and Markus Ahlers. [...]Read More »
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IceCube Scientist M. Krasberg wins UW-Madison Cool Science Image
Mark Krasberg While work at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory focuses on the edges of the Universe, the public is often interested in something which resides on the edges of Antarctica- penguins....
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Grad students win in Erice, Italy
Marcos Santander and Anne Schukraft At this year’s 18th International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics in Erice, Italy, IceCube graduate students Anne Schukraft, RWTH Aachen University, and Marcos...
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IceCube researcher receives young scientist award
On July 02, 2013, at the opening session of the International Cosmic Ray Conference held this year in Rio de Janerio, Brazil, Aya Ishihara of Chiba University, Japan, received an International Union...
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IceCube awarded the 2013 Breakthrough of the Year
The IceCube Lab in March, 2013. Apart from the U.S. flag, the flags from Chile and the Philippines were flying at the Pole in honor of the home countries of the 2012-2013 IceCube winterovers. Image:...
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Nathan Whitehorn a 2014 ‘Young Star’ in astrophysics
Nathan Whitehorn is shown at the South Pole. 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...
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DPG awards Hertha Sponer Prize to Anne Schukraft
Anne Schukraft 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...
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Puerto Rican STEM educator Armando Caussade selected as 2014 IceCube...
Armando Caussade has experience as a STEM educator with a wide variety of audiences: high school and college students, life-long learners, and public audiences. Since 2009, teachers have gained...
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UW physicist Francis Halzen receives American Ingenuity Award
Prof. Francis Halzen, principal investigator of IceCube and Hilldale and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Credit: EL PAIS/BERNARDO PÉREZ...
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Dawn Williams named APS Woman Physicist of the Month
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...
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2015 GNN Dissertation Prize awarded to van Santen and Yáñez
Jakob van Santen, a former graduate student working on IceCube at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC), and Juan Pablo Yáñez, also working on IceCube at DESY (Deutsches...
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Francis Halzen wins 2015 Balzan Prize
Francis Halzen, IceCube PI and professor at the UW–Madison. Image: Zig Hampel-Arias, WIPAC. Francis Halzen, IceCube principal investigator and Hilldale and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor at the...
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IceCube graduate student Seongjin In awarded the Korean Global PhD Fellowship
Seongjin In at the Pole. Image: Seongjin In, IceCube. The National Research Foundation of Korea has awarded Seongjin In, a graduate student at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) and known as Jin within...
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Darren Grant receives prestigious prize to boost his IceCube research
Credit: Martin Lipman, courtesy NSERC Darren Grant, who leads the IceCube team at the University of Alberta, has been awarded the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and...
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Benjamin Jones awarded APS’s Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award
Benjamin Jones, UTA assistant professor of Physics Credit: UTA The American Physical Society has awarded Benjamin Jones, an IceCube collaborator and an assistant professor of physics at the University...
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Subir Sarkar recognized with the Homi Bhabha Award
Subir Sarkar, the 2017 Homi Bhabha Award recipient. The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai, India have given the...
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Aya Ishihara wins Saruhashi Prize
Aya Ishihara at the South Pole in January, 2010. Image by Jim Haugen, IceCube/NSF. Aya Ishihara, an IceCube collaborator and an associate professor of physics at Chiba University in Japan, has been...
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Christian Spiering awarded the O’Ceallaigh Medal
Christian Spiering at the South Pole in 2002. Image courtesy of Christian Spiering. The Commission on Astroparticle Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) has awarded...
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Ignacio Taboada named APS Fellow for his work in multimessenger astrophysics
Ignacio Taboada with an IceCube DOM. Courtesy of Georgia Tech. Ignacio Taboada, Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Georgia Tech and a longtime IceCuber, is one of the 2018 Fellows...
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2019 IceCube Impact Awards recognize IceCubers’ efforts in detector performance
The third edition of the IceCube Impact Awards, which recognize contributions to the detector performance, was celebrated during the banquet dinner of the spring collaboration meeting last week in...
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