Knowing Neutrinos: A Carolina junior is part of the hunt for one of physics’ most sought-after discoveries: In advance of our Celebration of Undergraduate Research on April 26, we caught up with junior Sarah Vickers who, will be presenting her work as part … Read more
Successful student group, Trash Force, started by physics undergrads and advised by Dr. Jennifer Weinberg-Wolf has been cleaning up campus and gaining popularity! By Rachel Boyd Chapel Hill Trash Force may not the most glamorous club on UNC’s campus, but these … Read more
NSF just announced their Graduate Research Fellowship Program award winners and we are pleased to announce Madyson Barber and Guadalupe Duran have both received fellowship awards. This five year fellowship includes three years of financial support as well as a cost … Read more
Renowned physicist and cosmologist Professor Edward “Rocky” Kolb will be making an exciting visit to UNC Physics and Astronomy on March 27th and 28th, as part of the New Horizon’s Distinguished Speaker Series hosted by the Institute of Cosmology, Subatomic … Read more
Professor Yosuke Kanai has recently published a paper in Physical Review Letters (PRL), the issue 11/2023, which has been selected as an Editor’s Suggestion and featured in Physics Magazine of the American Physical Society (APS). This week’s issue of Physical … Read more
One of our recent physics graduates, Tyler Kay, has been recognized for his outstanding work at the 2023 SPIE Medical Imaging conference in San Diego recently. Tyler’s poster presentation on his undergraduate research project completed at UNC, “Comparing multi-view synthetic … Read more
The NC Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh is a weekend destination for many families and science lovers. But visitors to the museum the weekend of Jan. 28-29 had an even more fantastic experience as Astronomy Days returned offline … Read more
This week’s issue of Physical Review Letters (PRL) features the article “Search for the Majorana Nature of Neutrinos in the Inverted Mass Ordering Region with KamLAND-Zen” with Professor Hugon Karwowski and Dr Aobo Li as its co-authors. The piece … Read more
On January 9th, 2023, the Department of Physics and Astronomy held a colloquium on Measurements of Fission Product Yields Using Monoenergetic Neutron and Gamma-ray Beams in honor of Professor Hugon Karwowski on the occasion of his retirement. The colloquium celebrated Karwowski … Read more
Professor Branca and her co-workers’ research titled Low-boiling Point Perfluorocarbon Nanodroplets as Dual-Phase Dual-Modality MR/US Contrast Agent is the subject of a cover story in the 24/2022 issue of ChemPhysChem magazine. Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are often combined … Read more
The Society of Physics Students (SPS) National Office has awarded our local chapter the Outstanding Chapter Award. This is the chapter’s fifth consecutive award for excellence as a top-tier student-led physical sciences organization, a designation given to less than 10% … Read more
The latest edition of our Department’s News Magazine is now available online! You can find it here.
