Renowned physicist and cosmologist Professor Edward “Rocky” Kolb will be making an exciting visit to UNC Physics and Astronomy on March 27th and 28th, as part of the New Horizon’s Distinguished Speaker Series hosted by the Institute of Cosmology, Subatomic … Continued

Professor Yosuke Kanai has recently published a paper in Physical Review Letters (PRL), the issue 11/2023, which has been selected as an Editor’s Suggestion and featured in Physics Magazine of the American Physical Society (APS). This week’s issue of Physical … Continued

One of our recent physics graduates, Tyler Kay, has been recognized for his outstanding work at the 2023 SPIE Medical Imaging conference in San Diego recently. Tyler’s poster presentation on his undergraduate research project completed at UNC, “Comparing multi-view synthetic … Continued

  The NC Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh is a weekend destination for many families and science lovers. But visitors to the museum the weekend of Jan. 28-29 had an even more fantastic experience as Astronomy Days returned offline … Continued

  This week’s issue of Physical Review Letters (PRL) features the article “Search for the Majorana Nature of Neutrinos in the Inverted Mass Ordering Region with KamLAND-Zen” with Professor Hugon Karwowski and Dr Aobo Li as its co-authors. The piece … Continued

On January 9th, 2023, the Department of Physics and Astronomy held a colloquium on Measurements of Fission Product Yields Using Monoenergetic Neutron and Gamma-ray Beams in honor of Professor Hugon Karwowski on the occasion of his retirement.    The colloquium celebrated Karwowski … Continued

Professor Branca and her co-workers’ research titled Low-boiling Point Perfluorocarbon Nanodroplets as Dual-Phase Dual-Modality MR/US Contrast Agent is the subject of a cover story in the 24/2022 issue of ChemPhysChem magazine. Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are often combined … Continued

The Society of Physics Students (SPS) National Office has awarded our local chapter the Outstanding Chapter Award. This is the chapter’s fifth consecutive award for excellence as a top-tier student-led physical sciences organization, a designation given to less than 10% … Continued

The latest edition of our Department’s News Magazine is now available online! You can find it here.

Dr. Nirupama Sensharma joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Postdoctoral Associate in May 2021.The Ph.D. thesis of Dr. Nirupama Sensharma, titled “Wobbling motion in nuclei: Transverse, Longitudinal, and … Continued

Congratulations to John F. Wilkerson, distinguished Professor of Physics at UNC Chapel Hill, on joining APS Board of Directors. APS is pleased to announce the incoming Board of Directors members. These incoming Board members will be joining 2023 officers President … Continued

The American Physical Society 2023 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics – Aobo Li Citation: “For the invention of a novel machine learning algorithm that broke down significant technological barriers with monolithic liquid scintillator detectors and, in turn, delivered the world’s … Continued