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Dan Claes

Nebraska physicists (from left) Ken Bloom, Dan Claes and Ilya Kravchenko are members of an international team that earned the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

Husker physicists part of international team awarded Breakthrough Prize

April 9, 2025

Science & Technology

Ilya Kravchenko, Daniel Claes, Frank Golf and Ken Bloom are members of Nebraska’s Department of Physics and Astronomy who collaborate with partners at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN. Their work involves CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, an image of which is behind the researchers in this photo.

Husker team takes leading role at CERN's Large Hadron Collider

December 6, 2021

Science & Technology

The project team includes (from left) senior personnel Deepika Menon, Tiffany Heng-Moss, Mindi Searls and L.J. McElravy; co-principal investigators Gina Matkin, David Harwood, Dan Claes and Wendy Smith; and principal investigator Elizabeth Lewis.

$4.3 million NSF Noyce grant will help Nebraska science teachers grow

July 20, 2021

Society & Culture

Dr. Dan Claes, professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy

Lecture to cover theories of time travel and comic book physics

March 4, 2020

The 2020 SciPop Talks series kicks off Feb. 12 with "Dr. Rachel Lloyd and the Avery Hall Chemistry Time Capsule," presented by Mark Griep, professor of chemistry at Nebraska.

2020 SciPop Talks series kicks off Feb. 12

January 30, 2020

Science & Technology

The next Nebraska Lecture will explore the history of physics instruction on campus. The talk will focus on the work of DeWitt Bristol Brace in creating the physics department and the impact of his research.

Talk to examine roots of Nebraska physics, link to Einstein

September 4, 2019

Science & Technology

Retired Husker astronomer celebrates 50th anniversary of pulsar discovery

February 8, 2019

Science & Technology

SciPop Talks! to explore space law, comic-book physics

January 17, 2019

Science & Technology

SciPop Talks series begins Feb. 7

January 30, 2018

Science & Technology

"Going with the Flow" by Olga Prins Lukowski was one of nine eclipse-themed quilts on display at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum on Aug. 19-20. The design features jewel-like celestial objects.

Clear skies or no, the eclipse is coming

August 21, 2017

SciPop Interactive event April 29 at the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum.

SciPop Interactive event is April 29

April 21, 2017

Dan Claes

Claes to explore alternate realities in SciPop Talk

February 15, 2017