We are proud to announce that Samantha Pagan, a former student, Margie Bruff, a current undergraduate student, and Nick Bryden, a graduate student, have received NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports … Read more
Our very own Laura Mersini-Houghton is being featured on PBS’s “Closer To The Truth” series as they focus on Women In Science. You can access her episodes and interviews via https://www.closertotruth.com/contributor/laura-mersini-houghton/profile In honor of Women’s History Month in the US … Read more
This semester, the P&A department will be choosing a graduate student to serve as a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholar responsible for planning events and organizing resources related to improving the department’s recruitment of diverse students at the undergraduate and … Read more
As the earth rotates along its axis, it wobbles a little bit. This wobbling comes, in part, from how mass is distributed across the planet. Nuclear physics researchers have now observed this same type of wobbling in Au187- a gold … Read more
The department of physics and astronomy in the College of Arts & Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill has won an award for Improving Undergraduate Education from the American Physical Society. The award, which goes to no more than three of the … Read more
We are excited to announce that Jeff Ratzloff has been selected to receive the 2020 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in the area of Mathematics, Physical Sciences & Engineering. The Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award recognizes the highest level of graduate student scholarship … Read more
Under the direction of Dr. Joaquin Drut, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s chapter of the Society of Physics Students has earned the designation of a Society of Physics Students Outstanding Chapter! This is the highest level of … Read more
An international team of scientists has announced a breakthrough in its quest to measure the mass of the neutrino, one of the most abundant, yet elusive, elementary particles in our universe. The KATRIN experiment is based at the Karlsruhe … Read more
Amy is a doctoral student in physics and astronomy who studies potentially habitable planets in our galaxy using the Evryscope, the first gigapixel-scale all-sky telescope that images the entire visible sky every two minutes. Please follow the link to read … Read more
https://gradprofdev.unc.edu/student-profile-jessica-barrick/ UNC’s Graduate School did a student profile on one of our own, Jessica Barrick in regards to her participation in 3MT. Follow the link for the article.
Laurie McNeil has been awarded the 2019 George B. Pegram Award of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society. The prize recognizes physics educators who have demonstrated outstanding ability in undergraduate education. It has been 20 years … Read more
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 … Read more
