First-year UNC Physics and Astronomy graduate student Casey Berger was recently profiled by the University in a Spotlight article. Berger is a Royster Fellow, one of only 29 selected worldwide by the UNC graduate school for this academic year, and … Read more

Stephen Hawking and other renowned physicists will be attending a conference on Hawking Radiation during the week of August 24-29 in Stockholm, Sweden. The purpose of the conference is to discuss whether singularities exist in black holes and the role … Read more

A telescope designed by UNC Professor Nicholas Law and his team is profiled in the latest issue of Science Magazine. The Everyscope, which takes images of the whole sky every two minutes to look for exoplanets transiting in front of … Read more

UNC physics professor Christian Iliadis publishes the second, enlarged edition of a textbook, entitled “Nuclear Physics of Stars”. The first edition, published in 2007, has been widely used by instructors for teaching classes on nuclear astrophysics and has become the … Read more

Ryan Petersburg, a senior physics and music major at UNC, has won an Undergraduate Research Presentation Award at the APS April meeting that was held in Baltimore from April 11-14. His poster presented work completed as part of his Honor’s … Read more

Peter Higgs, professor emeritus in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh, was presented with an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during a ceremony at the … Read more

Students are finally getting the opportunity to utilize Phillips 335 following renovation of the space to create a new classroom.  The former library / storage space has been given an overhaul in order to allow students to have a better … Read more