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Kate Scholberg

Kate Scholberg

Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics
Physics
kate.scholberg@duke.edu
Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708-0305
273 Physics Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Awards & Honors

Kathryn A. McCarthy Lectureship in Physics

Other Tufts University · 2024 More about this award

AAAS Fellow

Scholarly Society American Association for the Advancement of Science · 2023 More about this award

Elected Member

Scholarly Society National Academy of Sciences · 2022

American Physical Society Outstanding Referee

Scholarly Society American Physical Society · 2019

Breakthrough Prize in Physics (Super-K and T2K collaborations)

International Breakthrough Board · 2016

Fellow of American Physical Society

National American Physical Society · November 2013

Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

National National Science Foundation · 2004

Outstanding Junior Investigator

National Department of Energy · 2003

In the News

Published February 12, 2025
Kate Scholberg quoted: The Most Energetic Neutrino Ever Seen Makes a Mediterranean Splash
Published January 30, 2025
Kate Scholberg quoted: A tiny neutrino detector scored big at a nuclear reactor
Published December 18, 2024
Kate Scholberg quoted: A new neutrino detector in China aims to spot mysterious ghost particles lurking around us
Published November 7, 2024
Kate Scholberg quoted: First Glimpses of Neutrino Fog
Published July 25, 2024
Kate Scholberg quoted: Dark Matter Experiments Get First Peek at the "Neutrino Fog"
Published April 18, 2024
Seven Faculty Elected Fellows of AAAS
Published March 28, 2023
Catching Dark Matter in a Basement
Published May 3, 2022
Three Faculty Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Published August 3, 2017
Worlds Smallest Neutrino Detector Makes Massive Discovery
Published April 13, 2016
Ghost Hunters: Duke Physicists Track the Changeable Neutrino
Published October 7, 2015
Kate Scholberg quoted: Why we should care about the Nobel Prize for the neutrino
Published March 26, 2015
Challenge of the Supercolliders: Science Bracketology in Action
Published April 8, 2014
Junkyard Physics
Published March 11, 2014
Kate Scholberg comments: Start spreading the SNEWS
Published January 24, 2014
Supernova Excitement: Explosion, but No Neutrinos
Published August 23, 2013
Why Does Particle Physics Matter?