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  • Discovery Receives Breakthrough Prize

    3 February 2017Discovery Receives Breakthrough Prize

    Associate Professor of Physics Steven Penn is among the international team of scientists being recognized this month for their pioneering discovery of gravitational waves.

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  • Launching Research at NASA's Rocket Week

    20 October 2016Launching Research at NASAs Rocket Week

    A group of HWS physics, architecture and pre-med students recently traveled to Wallops Island, Va., to test their muon detector research at the Colorado Space Grant Consortium RockSat-C program. Du

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  • Gravitational Waves Detected 100 years after Einstein's Prediction

    11 February 2016Gravitational Waves Detected 100 years after Einsteins Prediction

    LIGO Opens New Window on the Universe with Observation of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Black Holes HWS Associate Professor of Physics Steven Penn Played Major Role in Mirror Substrate and Coa

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