The American Physical Society (APS) Bridge Program seeks to increase the number of underrepresented minorities (URMs) with physics PhDs. Recognizing that a disproportionate number of URM students may get a late start in physics, have inadequate opportunities for high-level coursework, … Read more
Prof. Laura Mersini-Houghton was invited to give a public lecture in Kosova, organized by DOKU.TECH and the Ipko Foundation. The lecture attracted an audience of over 400 people and was followed by 30 minutes of Q&A. More details here.
The UNC-CH Department of Physics & Astronomy has completed a multi-stage transformation (begun in 2004) of our introductory physics instruction, in which we created four new courses to provide students with education in exciting and relevant physics topics using effective, … Read more
Art Champagne is the new Director of the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL), which is one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Centers of Excellence. Professor Champagne joined Carolina in 1990. Prior to coming to UNC he was an Assistant … Read more
We are delighted to report that Assoc. Prof. Oldenburg has been selected to serve on the Biomedical Imaging Technology-A (BMIT-A) study section at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for four years starting July 1. The role of study sections … Read more
Two UNC Physics and Astronomy students, Joule Othman and Cora Went, have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships for 2016. Joule is a second year graduate student at UNC, concentrating in Nuclear Physics. She completed her undergraduate work … Read more
UNC Physics and Astronomy Professor Sheila Kannappan was among four university leaders who received the University Award for the Advancement of Women for 2016. The award, which was introduced in 2006, recognizes significant accomplishment in mentoring, recruiting, offering professional development … Read more
UNC-CH Professor Laura Mersini-Houghton and Professor Greg Cook from Wake Forest University were interviewed for the Feb. 17 edition of WUNC’s “The State of Things.” In the interview, they talk about the recent Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detection of … Read more
The Department of Energy recently announced grant awards for three Topical Theory Collaborations, multi-institution research collaborations to address particularly important topics in nuclear physics. “Nuclear Theory for Double-Beta Decay and Fundamental Symmetries (DBD Collaboration),” led by UNC Physics and Astronomy … Read more
The Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) recently announced that six Scialog team awards would be dispersed between thirteen research fellows. The Scialog Time Domain Astrophysics conference in October 2015 included forty-nine Scialog fellows, considered top early career researchers in … Read more
Dr. Chris Hughes, a Physics and Astronomy professor and director of the Materials Science Center at James Madison University, was recently given an Outstanding Faculty Award by the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia. The award, which honors superior … Read more
UNC Physics and Astronomy Professors Joaquin Drut and Jonathan Heckman have both received Junior Faculty Development Awards this year. Dr. Heckman won his award to support research in “compactified” string theory, and seeks ways to extend the standard model of … Read more
