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

Michele Kelley took her first physics course in college, and only because it was required for her aerospace major. “After I took the first class, I officially switched my major,” she says. Now, the UNC-Chapel Hill doctoral student in physics and … Read more

‘Walking in the footsteps of men who walked on the moon’    Carolina’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center played a pivotal role   in American space exploration and discovery, including helping put a man on the moon.   By Emilie Poplett, … Read more

  Before Neil Armstrong made his giant leap for mankind, he first walked through the doors of the University’s Morehead Planetarium. From training the country’s earliest astronauts to uncovering new knowledge about the universe, the University of North Carolina at … Read more

  Former UNC Chapel Hill PhD student Kent Price recently attended a meeting of the PICUP (Partnership for Integration of Computation into Undergraduate Physics) community, and discovered he was one of five UNC alums among an estimated 60 participants and … Read more