The Graduate School has announced Laurel Burk, a postdoctoral research associate with UNC Physics and Astronomy, as the 2014 recipient of the Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award for Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering. The award recognizes exemplary scholarly work in doctoral … Read more
Chancellor Carol Folt announced the winners of the 2014 University Teaching Awards during halftime of the January 26 men’s basketball game. Professor Christian Iliadis was announced as the university’s nominee for the Board of Governors’ Award for Excellence in Teaching, … Read more
Assistant Professor Amy Oldenburg, Physics & Astronomy, has received an NSF CAREER award for her project titled “Imaging multi-scale viscoelastic properties of cancer-associated remodeling.” The project involves the development of a novel optical imaging instrument combining holography and optical coherence … Read more
UNC Physics Professors Otto Zhou and Jianping Lu, along with Radiation Oncology Professor Sha Chang, have developed a promising new therapy for cancer tumors that is based on carbon nanotube x-ray emitters developed in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill theoretical physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton gave a talk on pictures taken from the Planck satellite and what evidence they may yield for parallel universes at the 2013 How the Light Gets In Festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales. A video of … Read more
Deep in a former South Dakota gold mine, a team of scientists and students are attempting to unlock the secrets of neutrinos. Very little is known about these subatomic particles, and the research group’s findings could prove very important to … Read more
A three year, $499,340 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) grant has been awarded to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to enhance undergraduate physics courses at the university. The award, granted by the National Science Foundation and … Read more
Steven Elliott, a fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, recently spoke with South Dakota Public Broadcasting regarding the Majorana experiment. The experiment is a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of germanium-76, and involves over 100 collaborators from … Read more
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been named a project site for the Association of American Universities’ (AAU) five-year initiative to improve the quality of undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields at its … Read more
It is with profound sorrow that we note the death of our cherished friend and colleague, Professor Eugen Merzbacher, on June 6, 2013. Dr. Merzbacher was Kenan Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of Physics at UNC, Chapel … Read more
About 1,400 middle school students will be able to explore the universe with high-tech robotic telescopes in Chile and Chapel Hill through UNC’s global Skynet system. It’s part of a new $1.6 million National Science Foundation grant to encourage interest … Read more
There’s a place on campus where you can actually hear learning happening. That place is in Phillips Hall 206 and 208, where students in introductory physics classes sit at round tables instead of in rows of desks. They listen to … Read more
