The Laboratory for Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics (LENA), located at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL), is noted internationally for its precision nuclear reaction rate measurements of rare astrophysical processes. These are critical to stellar nucleosynthesis of heavier elements from hydrogen … Read more

Two UNC Physics and Astronomy students, Joule Othman and Cora Went, have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships for 2016. Joule is a second year graduate student at UNC, concentrating in Nuclear Physics. She completed her undergraduate work … Read more

UNC Physics and Astronomy Professor Sheila Kannappan was among four university leaders who received the University Award for the Advancement of Women for 2016. The award, which was introduced in 2006, recognizes significant accomplishment in mentoring, recruiting, offering professional development … Read more

UNC-CH Professor Laura Mersini-Houghton and Professor Greg Cook from Wake Forest University were interviewed for the Feb. 17 edition of WUNC’s “The State of Things.” In the interview, they talk about the recent Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detection of … Read more

The Department of Energy recently announced grant awards for three Topical Theory Collaborations, multi-institution research collaborations to address particularly important topics in nuclear physics. “Nuclear Theory for Double-Beta Decay and Fundamental Symmetries (DBD Collaboration),” led by UNC Physics and Astronomy … Read more

The Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) recently announced that six Scialog team awards would be dispersed between thirteen research fellows. The Scialog Time Domain Astrophysics conference in October 2015 included forty-nine Scialog fellows, considered top early career researchers in … Read more

Dr. Chris Hughes, a Physics and Astronomy professor and director of the Materials Science Center at James Madison University, was recently given an Outstanding Faculty Award by the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia. The award, which honors superior … Read more

UNC Physics and Astronomy Professors Joaquin Drut and Jonathan Heckman have both received Junior Faculty Development Awards this year. Dr. Heckman won his award to support research in “compactified” string theory, and seeks ways to extend the standard model of … Read more

The Institute for Cosmology, Subatomic Matter, and Symmetries (CoSMS Institute) is currently profiled on the UNC College of Arts and Sciences website. The Institute is a scientific collaboration between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State … Read more

Research conducted by the Laboratory for Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics (LENA) has been given a spotlight at the US Department of Energy website. UNC Physics and Astronomy Professors Christian Iliadis and Art Champagne are collaborators in experiments which measure thermonuclear fusion … Read more

UNC Professor Christian Iliadis, along with Prof. Sumner Starrfield and Frank Timmes of Arizona State, were awarded a $700,000 NASA grant to better understand how supernovae evolve prior to explosion. Their study seeks to resolve uncertainties in how stars create … Read more

Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) celebrates fifty years of service to research and education this month. It is one of only four Department of Energy Centers of Excellence in the United States. TUNL is a collaboration between UNC, Duke, and … Read more