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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
