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December 12, 2020

In memoriam: Jack Steinberger, Nobel Laureate and former Columbia and Nevis faculty member
Jack Steinberger, who served on the who served on the Columbia faculty and performed research at Nevis Labs between 1951 and 1971 and was known for his pioneering research into elementary particles, passed away on December 12 at the age of 99. Professor Steinberger shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Melvin Schwartz "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino". A brief autobiography is posted here and an obituary here.

December 5, 2020 - ATLAS Virtual Tour

We've added a pair of videos to the Nevis YouTube Channel for the Science-on-Hudson presentation Inside the ATLAS Detector: A Virtual Tour Inside the Largest Experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider:

August 21, 2020 - Barnard News

How Beyond Barnard Synchronized Summer Colloquium 2020. In addition to this colloquium series, Professor Reshmi Mukherjee helped organize a separate series of lectures and seminars. Prof. Mukherjee works on VERITAS/CTA research at Nevis.

June, 2020 - Fermilab Frontiers

DUNE prepares for data onslaught. Assistant Professor Georgia Karagiorgi is working on the DUNE data selection at Nevis Labs.

June 1, 2020 - Columbia News

Scientists Detect Crab Nebula Using Innovative Gamma-Ray Telescope. Barnard College Professor Reshmi Mukherjee and Columbia University Associate Professor Brian Humensky worked at Nevis to develop this telescope.

April 24, 2020

Professor Elena Aprile was elected to the AAAS.

April 21, 2020 - Columbia News

Could a New Ultraviolet Technology Fight the Spread of Coronavirus? - A portion of this research was performed by RARAF at Nevis Labs.

April 7, 2020 - New York Times

Will Coronavirus Freeze the Search for Dark Matter?. Portions of Prof. Aprile's experiment were built and tested at Nevis Labs.

April 3, 2020 - Columbia News

Columbia to Build Upgrades for Large Hadron Collider, the World’s Biggest Atom Smasher.

March 2019 - The Hudson Independent

Nevis Labs in Irvington Hosts "Science-on-Hudson" Public Lecture Series.

Jan 12, 2018 - Westchester County Business Journal

Columbia University research campus in Irvington to study new pancreatic cancer treatment.

Summer 2103 - Columbia Magazine

Heady Collisions - An article on Nevis' participation in detecting supersymmetric particles at ATLAS.