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
How did life begin? What is dark matter? What is consciousness? How much do we really know? These essential questions have fueled scientific inquiry for generations. Dr. Rachel Smith, Adjunct Professor at UNC, Associate Professor at Appalachian State, Head of … Read more
Calculating the thermodynamics of polarized fermions (realized in nature as nuclei, cold atoms, and neutron matter) is one of the most challenging problems in quantum physics. It suffers from a pervasive issue called the sign problem, which makes probabilities complex … Read more
Indium tin oxide (ITO) films are the premier choice of transparent conductive electrodes in optoelectronic devices, we find this material in almost all of today’s gadgets, from e-readers to light emitting diodes, from touch screens to solar cells. However, in … Read more
Grayson Rich receives the 2018 DNP Division of Nuclear Physics Dissertation Award. Grayson completed both his undergraduate and doctoral studies in physics while a graduate student in our department at UNC. As a graduate student he worked at TUNL … Read more
