Robert V.F. Janssens is the new Director of the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL), which is one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Centers of Excellence. Professor Janssens joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy in 2017. Prior to coming … Read more

The annual Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement have been awarded to four promising faculty members who exemplify groundbreaking and innovative research along with future career promise. These faculty members will be recognized at the September … Read more

The most recent publication by Asst. Prof. Gokce Basar and Postdoctoral Associate Xin An, in collaboration with Mikahil Stephanov and Ho-Ung Yee from UIC, appeared today in Physical Review Letters. In this paper, they derive the evolution equations for non-Gaussian measures … Read more

  FIG. 1 Absorption coefficient of diF-TES ADT. Laurie McNeil’s group has published a paper in Applied Physics Letters, “Efficiency enhancement of organic thin-film phototransistors due to photo-assisted charge injection.” In it they report that they determined that thin-film transistors made from … Read more

The conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories (RPMBT) will take place here at UNC in September 2022. As a bridge program, this year we are hosting a series of virtual talks in September 2021: the Quantum Many-Body Days. The format of … Read more

A 3D intraoral tomosynthesis imaging device named PORTRAYTM from Surround Medical Systems, Inc. has just received 510(K) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It is based on the technologies originally developed and patented by researchers from the … Read more

A proposal submitted by an international team, led by UNC-Chapel Hill Prof. Dan Reichart, has been selected to receive a $3M grant from the Department of Defense’s National Defense Education Program (NDEP).   Dr. Reichart directs “Skynet”, which is a … Read more

  We are excited to announce that Frank Tsui is the new Chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department effective today July, 1, 2021. Frank joined UNC as an assistant professor in 1995. Prior to that, he was the Margaret … Read more

NC Space Grant is excited to announce the recipients of the 2021-22 Undergraduate Research Scholarships and Graduate Research Fellowships. Joining the NC Space Grant family from universities across the state, these students will be involved in research spanning different science, … Read more

UNC researchers Jianping Lu and Otto Zhou have spent the last two decades refining technology that makes X-ray machines smaller, faster, safer, and produce clearer images-research that’s changing the world of dentistry, medicine, and security.  In 2005 Jianping’s son was … Read more

In a recent article that appears on the Sigma Pi Sigma website that will later be distributed in print, UNC’s own Laurie McNeil writes about the many changes in the ever evolving methods of teaching Physics and how they are … Read more

APS Government Affairs (APS GA) is proud to announce 12 society members have been selected as Five Sigma Physicist awardees for their outstanding advocacy work that included taking multiple actions during the past year and maintaining communication with APS GA … Read more