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Our distinguished colleague Professor Robert Janssens has been awarded this year’s APS Division of Nuclear Physics Distinguished Service Award. The citation reads: “For his exemplary service to the DNP, particularly his extended leadership in the chair line and the nuclear … Continued

Carl, who will join our Department in January 2023, is one of 20 recipients of the 2022 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering. (see the announcement on the College website, reproduced below). The fellowship recognizes innovative early-career researchers and includes … Continued

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is a competition where students present their graduate thesis work in three minutes. The competition, done as part of University Research week, celebrates doctoral or master’s research and is meant to cultivate presentation and research … Continued

Each year, the Postdoctoral Awards for Research Excellence (PARE) are given in recognition of the research promise demonstrated by individual postdoctoral scholars. Meet this year’s recipients and learn about their areas of interest. The PARE awards are open to postdoctoral … Continued

Joshua is one of the six NC STEM Policy Fellows for 2022-2023, the third year of operation for the program (see the press release). He will be working in the NC Department of Commerce’s Office of Science, Technology & Innovation … Continued

“Our universe is one tiny grain of dust in a beautiful cosmos”… The Guardian interviews Prof. Laura Mersini Houghton. Read the feature here.

From the article: “Argus Panoptes, the all-seeing, manyeyed giant of Greek mythology, is about to take physical form in the mountains of North Carolina. In October, an array of 38 small telescopes will begin monitoring a slice of visible sky … Continued

Listen to the interview here: BBC Radio 4 – BBC Inside Science, Multiverses, melting glaciers and what you can tell from the noise of someone peeing From the BBC Radio 4 website: The Multiverse Laura Mersini-Houghton is an internationally renowned … Continued

Prof. Mersini-Houghton’s book “Before the Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and what lies beyond” was reviewed by The Washington Post. Read the article here This excerpt sums it up: ”[A] riveting tour of the cosmos from one of … Continued

Before the Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond, by Laura Mersini-Houghton, published July 19th, 2022. “A revolutionary new account of our universe’s creation—and a breathtaking exploration of the landscape from which we sprang—from one of … Continued

Nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF) experiments using linearly polarized γ-ray beams allow for the measurement of level energies and widths, spins, parities, multipolarity mixing ratios, and branching ratios, and, therefore, represent an important tool for probing nuclear structure. These properties are … Continued