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Physicists are relationship experts. It’s their job to explore one of the most fundamental relationships of all - the one between matter and energy. Physicists help us understand the world at its most fundamental level, from the smallest particles to the universe itself.
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VERMILLION, S.D. – The University of South Dakota will play a key role in the international collaboration SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment which will begin operations in the early 2020s to hunt for hypothetical dark matter particles called weakly interacting massive particles, or...
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VERMILLION, S.D. – Three members of the University of South Dakota College of Arts & Sciences faculty have received the 2018 Richard and Sharon Cutler Faculty Awards in Liberal Arts. This year’s recipients are Eric Jepsen, Ph.D., (Political Science), Joseph Tinguely, Ph.D., ...
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