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DEPARTMENT HEADLINES

Bruce Carney to receive 2025 Pete Andrews Leadership Award

On Wednesday UNC Retired Faculty and Professionals Association (RFPA) President, Bobbi Owen, announced that our retired astronomy faculty colleague, Department Chair, College of A&S Dean, and Provost, Bruce Carney, will be honored with the RFPA’s 2025 Pete Andrews Leadership Award … Read more
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
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
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

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
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
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
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