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For detailed measurements of Higgs boson properties confirming the symmetry-breaking mechanism of mass generation … and more! I am very proud to be listed as one of the over 13,000 laureates for the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Unlike the Nobel Prize in Physics, the 13-year-old Breakthrough Prize can […]

A public lecture at the Sanford Underground Research Facility I was thrilled to deliver a public lecture to the community of Lead, South Dakota, at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) visitor centre. SURF is a sister laboratory to SNOLAB and home to the current LZ dark matter search experiment […]

I was pleased to represent SNOLAB in an interview with CBC Radio One Sudbury reporter Erika Choristol for the March 21, 2025 “Up North” program. I discussed the newly funded SEEDLING (Science and Engineering Experiments at Depth – LearnING) at SNOLAB program. This program is led by the outstanding Education […]

Want to discover dark matter? Here’s a detailed guide to launch your career. I am very excited to announce that the textbook, “The Dark Matter Discoverer’s Guidebook”, is now available in electronic and paper format! Dr. Jodi Cooley and I co-authored  this book over three years of work. Since no one […]

I was invited to join host Markus Schwabe (“Morning North”) on CBC Radio One Sudbury and speak as an American voter living in Canada and voting while abroad. You can listen in here: Additional Note: I write this on May 18, 2025, and note that – unfortunately – this conversation […]

 I sat down with the host of CBC Sudbury’s “Morning North” program, Markus Schwabe, to talk about Dark Matter Day and some of the activities going on at SNOLAB to mark this day.

I am very excited to be participating in my first-ever TAUP conference this week. Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP) is a biennial conference whose roots stretch back to the late 1980s. This year it is being held at the University of Vienna in Austria. I am presenting two […]

I write this post with a heavy heart: after July 31, 2022, I will no longer be on the faculty at SMU. My spouse and colleague, Professor Jodi Cooley, has been selected as the next Executive Director of SNOLAB in Canada. We are both departing SMU to ensure that she […]

I am very pleased to announce that the first in new a series of books – “The Friendly Physics Guide(s) to … “ – is now available! The books will, at first, be based on special topics lectures that I have delivered over several years as part of my introductory […]