At UNC-Chapel Hill’s Last Lecture on April 19, professor Dan Reichart described the vast span of humankind’s history and place in time, then shared his concept of civilizational momentum and made bold predictions.

    John Lattanzio is an astrophysicist who works on understanding stars and how they make the elements that comprise our world. He serves as President of the International Astronomical Union’s Commission on Stellar Evolution and is a professor in … Continued

    UNC’s Evryscope has detected a superflare that briefly made the tiny star Proxima Centauri (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.02001.pdf), the nearest star to our Sun, near100x brighter. Proxima Centauri hosts a likely terrestrial-mass planet in its habitable-zone, but Proxima Centauri’s extreme stellar activity casts doubt … Continued

Michael Antonacci, Physics and Astronomy Graduate working in Dr. Branca’s lab, has been selected as a Dean’s Graduate Fellow in the College of Art and Science for the Academic Year 2018-2019. Michael distinguished himself as outstanding researcher and teacher. As … Continued

An article by Alyssa Lafaro featuring Prof. Drut’s research was published in UNC’s Endeavors magazine. The article describes the kind of work done by Drut’s group as they develop and apply computational methods to quantum many-body problem. In their work, Drut’s … Continued

An article co-authored by Prof. Laurie McNeil of the UNC Physics & Astronomy Department was published in the November 2017 issue of Physics Today.  The article describes the report Phys21: Preparing Physics Students for 21st Century Careers prepared by the … Continued