The first direct evidence of crystallized white dwarf stars has been discovered by an international team of researchers that includes two former astronomers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Predicted half a century ago, the discovery of … Continued

  The UNC Chapel Hill chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) has won an Outstanding Chapter Award from the SPS National Office. This is the first time the chapter has been recognized for its excellence as a top-tier … Continued

Maggie is one of 40 Americans selected for the one- and two-year awards, which provide university fees, cost of living expenses, annual book grants, thesis grant, research and daily travel grants and fares to and from the United States, an … Continued

The October 2018 “Editor’s pick” for the American Journal of Physics is a paper authored by multiple current and former members of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, describing their multi-year effort to reform and re-envision the two-course introductory physics … Continued

In a recent paper published in Physical Review Letters [1], UNC graduate student Andrew Loheac and his advisor Prof. Joaquín Drut tackled the long-standing problem of calculating the properties of polarized fermions in the universal regime known as the unitary … Continued

Adrienne Erickcek, an assistant professor in the UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy department, has been received an National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award to support her investigation of how the evolution of the Universe during its first second affects the distribution … Continued

Calculating the thermodynamics of polarized fermions (realized in nature as nuclei, cold atoms, and neutron matter) is one of the most challenging problems in quantum physics. It suffers from a pervasive issue called the sign problem, which makes probabilities complex … Continued

Indium tin oxide (ITO) films are the premier choice of transparent conductive electrodes in optoelectronic devices, we find this material in almost all of today’s gadgets, from e-readers to light emitting diodes, from touch screens to solar cells. However, in … Continued

  Grayson Rich receives the 2018 DNP Division of Nuclear Physics Dissertation Award. Grayson completed both his undergraduate and doctoral studies in physics while a graduate student in our department at UNC.  As a graduate student he worked at TUNL … Continued

Since the beginning of the 21st century, nuclear physicists have had the opportunity to explore the properties of atomic nuclei with more neutrons than those found in the stable nuclei making up our world. They discovered unknown aspects of the … Continued

Joaquín Drut, Associate Professor and Melchor Fellow, receives the 2018 Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty. The Hettleman Prize recognizes the achievements of outstanding junior tenure-track faculty or recently tenured faculty. Joaquín was born and raised in … Continued

Rafael S. de Souza’s book “Bayesian Models for Astrophysical Data” won the 2018 Prose Award best book of the year in Astronomy and Cosmology. This comprehensive guide to Bayesian methods in astronomy enables hands-on work by supplying complete R, JAGS, … Continued