Celebrating UCR’s Distinguished Professor Barry Barish: A Night of Scientific Pioneers and Discoveries

On Tuesday, April 30, 2024, UC Riverside professor Barry Barish will be honored on campus for receiving the National Medal of Science. Barish, a distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at UCR, joined the university in 2018 and was awarded the highest recognition in the nation for scientists and engineers, the National Medal of Science, in October of 2023.

The public is invited to attend a free celebration where they can meet Barish and other UCR faculty members and students. The event will feature two keynote speakers – Art McDonald, a winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize, and Chang Kee Jung, winner of the American Physical Society’s 2022 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize. Presentations on the frontiers of physics will take place at 1 p.m., followed by tours of the Physics building laboratories and student presentations at 4 p.m. A reception with food and light refreshments will follow at 5 p.m. in the University Theater.

Barish will deliver a presentation titled “Gravitational Waves: Unraveling the Mysteries of our Universe” as part of UCR’s Science Lecture Series at 6 p.m. Guests can park for free but must register online to receive complimentary parking. For more information and to register, please click on the provided link.

The event promises to be an exciting opportunity for people to learn about cutting-edge research in physics and astronomy from some of the most renowned scientists in the field today!