In Summer 2018, eleven students in the class of Mr. Dubarrie Fagout of River City High School in West Sacramento, participated in a paid research internship in the Physics Department at UC Davis, under the sponsorship of the DOE SSAAP program and the Oak Ridge Institute for Science Education.

Prof. Calderon de la Barca has been invited to participate in the filming of an IMAX screen documentary highlighting physics research done at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN.

An international team of astronomers including Brian Lemaux and Lori Lubin of UCD Physics has discovered a titanic structure in the early universe, just 2 billion years after the Big Bang.

Robin Erbacher was named Fellow of the American Physical Society, Division of Particles and Fields, for significant contributions to measuring the properties of the top quark and to use it to probe for a variety of new physics signatures.

Professor Emeritus (deceased) Wendell Potter was remembered at the 2018 American Association of Physics Teachers summer meeting.

The largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world has just recorded its first particle tracks.

Nick Sherman, B.S. in physics and applied mathematics, with a minor in computer science, UC Davis 2018, has won American Physical Society's 2018 LeRoy Apker Award.

Eleven sites across the US and one in Canada will host Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) in January 2019. The APS CUWiP at UC Davis will draw students from northern California and Nevada.