Congratulations, Duane Deardorff on being accepted to join the Fulbright Specialist Roster! As an approved candidate, Duane is now eligible to be matched to a host institution’s project at some point during his three-year tenure. The Fulbright Specialist Program, a … Read more
Joseph (Jo) Moscoso is one of the 62 graduate students nationwide selected for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program’s 2024 Solicitation 1 cycle. Through world-class training and access to state-of-the-art facilities and resources at DOE National Laboratories, … Read more
We are so proud of our students, who were recently inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa college honorary society. Less than 1% of all college students qualify for acceptance. Congratulations to: Patrick Steven McCaw, a junior with mathematics and statistics … Read more
Dr. Tamara Branca, Physics and Astronomy Professor, is the newly elected Vice-Chair of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society (SESAPS). Dr. Branca begins her first term in office on January 1, 2025. In subsequent years she will become … Read more
Planet-forming disks are a natural outcome of angular momentum conservation as molecular clouds collapse to form stars. During this collapse, the clouds begin to spin faster, eventually flattening into a disk shape. These “protoplanetary disks” are thought to form planets … Read more
From https://frib.msu.edu/news/2024/chromium-62: In a recent paper in Nature Physics, an international research collaboration, including Edward G. Bilpuch Distinguished Professor Robert Janssens as a co-PI for the experiment, used world-class instrumentation at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) to study … Read more
Increasing the bandwidth of existing optical fiber networks is vital as society’s appetite for information grows. Writing in npj Spintronics, an editorial article (titled ‘Communicating with magnons’: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44306-024-00060-1) highlighted a recent publication by Y. Xiong et al from Wei Zhang’s … Read more
Congratulations to Prof. Brad Barlow who was recently awarded a 2024-2025 Faculty Research Grant from the NC Space Grant! This funding will support Barlow and several undergraduate students as they use optical photometry from space- and ground-based observatories to search … Read more