David Hill’s lab was part of a paper featured in last month’s Science Translational Medicine that resulted from a 10 year collaborator between UNC and the University of Western Australia and their AREST CF group that worked … Continued

The Cosmostatistics Initiative (COIN), a worldwide interdisciplinary community created to unlock cosmic puzzles, has entered into a strategic agreement with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope-Dark Energy Science Collaboration (LSST-DESC). The LSST is expected to begin observations in 2021 and is one of … Continued

Congratulations to Cliff Tysor and Tim O’Brien on achieving their 20 year anniversary with us! We know you have worked hard for this accomplishment and we truly appreciate your dedication.  

Amy Glazier was awarded a NASA / North Carolina Space Grant Graduate Research Fellowship for the summer of 2019. This summer, Amy will leverage the 15-million-source, 3-year-strong Evryscope data set to identify potentially habitable exoplanets in nearby binary star systems. The … Continued

On any given Tuesday afternoon, it isn’t strange to see several hundred students eating lunch on Polk Place. This past Tuesday was no different, only this time, the students might have looked a lot smaller than usual.  Four different elementary … Continued

Josh McKenney and Sten Delos were both awarded the Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate School. Dissertation Completion Fellowships support doctoral students in the final year of their dissertation by enabling them to focus full time on research and writing. Recipients cannot hold … Continued

Michele Kelley, Royster Fellow, wins the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its … Continued

Dr. Robert V. Janssens, Edward G. Bilpuch Distinguished Professor, has been chosen as one of the 2019 American Physical Society’s Outstanding Referees of the Physical Review journals. The Outstanding Referee program was instituted in 2008 to recognize scientists who have … Continued

David Aguilar has been selected by the scientific review panel of the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting as one of the 580 most qualified young scientists to participate in the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting taking place from … Continued

The Society for Science & the Public announced Abhijit Gupta a top 300 scholar in the 78th Regeneron Science Talent Search for his research project involving gravitational waves from pulsating compact stars. The Regeneron Science Talent Search (Regeneron STS), a program … Continued

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society is the international honor society of science and engineering. One of the oldest and largest scientific organizations in the world, Sigma Xi has a distinguished history of service to science and society for … Continued

On the northern tip of Ireland, where the North Sea meets the Atlantic, waves smash into 40,000 ancient, hexagon-shaped pillars at Giant’s Causeway — the result of a volcanic eruption 60 million years ago. Small pools form in the cracks … Continued