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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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Physics and Astronomy’s New Inductees into Phi Beta Kappa
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
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Congratulations, Tamara Branca, elected Vice-Chair of the Southeastern Section of APS!
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
RESEARCH NEWS
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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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Communicating with Magnons — UNC’s Work in Hybrid Magnonics highlighted by a recent editorial
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
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Prof. Barlow Receives NC Space Grant Funding to Search for Spider Binaries
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