The American Astronomical Society’s Division on Dynamical Astronomy (DDA) is pleased to announce that the 2023 recipient of the Vera Rubin Early Career Award is Dr. Carl Rodriguez of the University of North Carolina, for his novel and sustained contributions to our understanding of dynamics of … Continued

One of our most distinguished graduates, Adam Falk (BS 1987), will be the orator at the Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises at Harvard on May 23rd. Adam got his PhD at Harvard in 1991 and subsequently joined the physics faculty … Continued

Congratulations to our two Physics and Astronomy majors that have been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa: Abigail Hailey Dunnigan Andrew Hanan Mattson And a minor: Rachel Elizabeth Emrick 219 students were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa at UNC-Chapel Hill. Past … Continued

The RFA Executive Committee is pleased to announce the selection of four outstanding recipients of the 2023 RFA Leadership Award. Originally established to recognize those who provided leadership to the Retired Faculty Association, eligibility was expanded in 2013 to include … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

  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 … Continued

  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 … Continued