UPCOMING EVENTS

Oct20

Sunday 4:00 pm

Oct21

Monday 3:30 pm

Oct22

Tuesday 12:00 pm

DEPARTMENT HEADLINES

Yosuke Kanai Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

Congratulations to Professor Yosuke Kanai on being elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)! Dr. Yosuke Kanai is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He … Read more
Grad-to-Undergrad Program Undergraduates students have a blast at the Conference for Undergraduate Underrepresented Minorities in Physics

Three undergraduate student mentees of the Grad-to-Undergrad (G2U) Mentorship Program – Maria “Flor” Nardone, Vysnavi “Vyshu” Sabbi, and Gerald “Mezzie” Akwuole – attended the Conference for Undergraduate Minorities in Physics (CU2MIP) [https://cu2mip.physics.umd.edu]. The conference was held from April 12-14th at … Read more
PROF. DAN REICHART RECEIVES EMMONS AWARD!

Congratulations to Prof. Dan Reichart on receiving the Emmons Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, for “demonstrating outstanding achievement in the teaching of college-level introductory astronomy for non-majors”. More info here.
Astronomy minor Karsen Kitchen goes to space, literally

On August 26, astronomy minor Karsen Kitchen who is senior majoring in communication studies made history by being the youngest woman to cross the Kármán line (an altitude of 100 km above mean sea level) which marks the boundary of … Read more

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
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
Otto Zhou and Jianping Lu win Carolina Creativity Hubs Award

Profs Otto Zhou and Jianping Lu, along with Prof. Yueh Lee, Radiology and Adjunct Prof of Physics and colleagues from computer sciences and data sciences and school of medicine, won one of the five Carolina Creativity Hubs award. The title … Read more
A new study quantifies how dark is the Universe

A new study, co-authored by Prof. Mike Shull, quantifies the true darkness of the cosmic sky. It was recently published in the Astrophysical Journal (Vol 972, 95) and was featured on a NASA press release. The study is based on … Read more