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  David Stilwell receives prestigious 2025 Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Assistants

  David Stilwell, PhD Student in Polymer Physics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a recipient of the prestigious 2025 Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Assistants. David was selected for his outstanding contributions … Read more

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  Laura Mersini-Houghton, Panelist on upcoming Institute of Arts and Ideas Panel

  On Monday watch the exciting debate between physicists Carlo Rovelli, Pioneering Physicist, Laura Mersini-Houghton, Leading Theoretical Physicist, and Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Laureate, about one of the most mystical objects in the universal. Hosted by Closer to Truth’s Robert Lawrence … Read more

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  Duane Deardorff selected for Fulbright Specialist Roster

  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

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  UNC Ph.D. Physics student awarded DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program Award

  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

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  New spin-wave microscopy highlighted by an Editors’ Suggestion and a featured story in Physics Magazine.  

  Researchers at UNC (Zhang, Tsui group in Physics) and Cahoon group (Chemistry) recently developed a new method for imaging spin waves in magnetic materials uses flash-like intensity variations in a laser beam to capture the wave motion at specific moments … Read more

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  Unveiling a Lightweight Giant: JWST Reveals the True Nature of a Young Exoplanet

  A recent study led by graduate student Pa Chia Thao has unveiled exciting new findings on a 17-million-year-old exoplanet, HIP 67522 b, using cutting-edge data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Originally classified as a “hot Jupiter” due to … Read more

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  UNC Student Finds Newborn Planet in Warped System

  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

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  Prof. Janssens’ Research on Chromium-62 Featured in Nature Physics

  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

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