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The department social committee organizes six department-wide events: a welcome back picnic, Halloween party, holiday party, winter party, spring picnic, and summer happy hour to celebrate the first-year graduate students’ ascension. Additional social gatherings include special staff events, undergraduate club activities for Visibility in Physics at UNC and the Society of Physics Students, and graduate student outings including an annual trip to Kerr Lake. If you’re new to the department, please ask the Director of Undergraduate or Graduate Studies (as appropriate) and also staff in the main office to be added to all relevant department listservs so you’ll be in the loop about upcoming events. Also, reach out to the contacts below so we know to look out for you!

Faculty, staff, grad and undergrad students dressed in Hawaiian leis for the winter party and wacky costumes for Halloween. Watch out for Duane Deardorff juggling on stilts!