UNC Physics and Astronomy Department Chair Dr. Christian Iliadis gave a presentation in Charleston, SC for the Patriots Point Eclipse on a Warship event. Visitors at the event were able to view the solar eclipse from the flight deck of … Read more
UNC Physics and Astronomy Adjunct Professor Steven Christensen captured several amazing pictures of the 8/21 solar eclipse from Niota, Tennessee. The area experienced two minutes and thirty-nine seconds of totality. Niota and the surrounding communities in Eastern Tennessee were among … Read more
Chelsea Bartram, a graduate student in the UNC Department of Physics and Astronomy, has received the Third Prize for her poster presented at TAUP 2017 — The XV International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics. The conference was … Read more
The American Astronomical Society recently featured UNC Physics and Astronomy postdoctoral associate and Hubble Fellow J.J. Hermes‘ research surrounding a newly discovered white dwarf. Designated SDSSJ0837+1856, the white dwarf is “unusually massive,” and its uniqueness allows study of the rotation … Read more
Gulden (Joule) Othman, a third-year graduate student in UNC Physics and Astronomy, was recently featured in Endeavors magazine’s ‘Women in Science Wednesdays’ for March 8, 2016. The full interview with the UNC research magazine can be found here. Congratulations, Joule!
The Department of Physics and Astronomy recently hosted the first Arts and Sciences ‘Meet the Scientists’ event with elementary school children from Carrboro Elementary. The science component included a day long outreach program where 80 first graders, with their parents … Read more
Over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday (13-15 January), thirteen UNC physics majors attended the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at Virginia Tech. This conference was one of ten sponsored by the American Physical Society, held simultaneously all over … Read more
The Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society has presented the 2016 Pegram Award to Dr. Kent Price of Morehead State University (Tennessee). Kent received his PhD from UNC (working with Laurie McNeil) in 1998 and is currently an Associate … Read more
UNC partner Carestream Health unveiled a mobile medical imaging device at the 2016 meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, IL. The annual meeting is the largest radiology conference in the world. Carestream’s device features carbon … Read more
An image of the Statue of Liberty Nebula (NGC 3576), taken at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile (CTIO), was featured on September 28, 2016 as NASA’s Astronomy Image of the Day. The featured photo was taken by PROMPT, … Read more
UNC Physics and Astronomy Professor Laura Mersini-Houghton sat down over the summer to meet with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama. “It was a great honour and pleasure to meet Laura Mersini, Albanian star of astrophysics, living for years in the … Read more
The American Physical Society (APS) Bridge Program seeks to increase the number of underrepresented minorities (URMs) with physics PhDs. Recognizing that a disproportionate number of URM students may get a late start in physics, have inadequate opportunities for high-level coursework, … Read more
