Pa Chia Thao decided she wanted to become a scientist in sixth grade, but she rarely saw other women — let alone women of color   — in her STEM classes or textbooks. “I remember in high school I took a … Continued

Michele Kelley took her first physics course in college, and only because it was required for her aerospace major. “After I took the first class, I officially switched my major,” she says. Now, the UNC-Chapel Hill doctoral student in physics and … Continued

‘Walking in the footsteps of men who walked on the moon’    Carolina’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center played a pivotal role   in American space exploration and discovery, including helping put a man on the moon.   By Emilie Poplett, … Continued

  Before Neil Armstrong made his giant leap for mankind, he first walked through the doors of the University’s Morehead Planetarium. From training the country’s earliest astronauts to uncovering new knowledge about the universe, the University of North Carolina at … Continued

  Former UNC Chapel Hill PhD student Kent Price recently attended a meeting of the PICUP (Partnership for Integration of Computation into Undergraduate Physics) community, and discovered he was one of five UNC alums among an estimated 60 participants and … Continued

  “First, communication skills, particularly writing. Next, the ability to analyze a complex problem. Finally, grit and determination.”  Lab director Dr. Amy Oldenburg shares three skills necessary to do her job in SPIE Professional Magazine.   Amy’s story can be … Continued

      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