Since the beginning of the 21st century, nuclear physicists have had the opportunity to explore the properties of atomic nuclei with more neutrons than those found in the stable nuclei making up our world. They discovered unknown aspects of the … Read more

Joaquín Drut, Associate Professor and Melchor Fellow, receives the 2018 Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty. The Hettleman Prize recognizes the achievements of outstanding junior tenure-track faculty or recently tenured faculty. Joaquín was born and raised in … Read more

Rafael S. de Souza’s book “Bayesian Models for Astrophysical Data” won the 2018 Prose Award best book of the year in Astronomy and Cosmology. This comprehensive guide to Bayesian methods in astronomy enables hands-on work by supplying complete R, JAGS, … Read more

  Reyco Henning, Professor, receives the 2018 Carlyle Sitterson Award for Teaching First-Year Students, which “was established to recognize excellence in teaching first-year students by a tenured or tenure track faculty member.” Congrats to Reyco for a job well done!! … Read more

  Jennifer Weinberg-Wolf, Teaching Assistant Professor, receives the 2018 Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, which “was established to recognize excellence in inspirational teaching of undergraduate students, particularly first- and second-year students.” Congrats to Jennifer for a job well done!!

Cassandra Houston, Biophysics Administrative Assistant, became a Certified Research Administrator (CRA) in June 2018. CRA designation is granted by the Research Administrators Certification Council to individuals who have demonstrated the knowledge and experience necessary to serve as an administrator of professional … Read more

Associate Professor Amy Oldenburg in Physics & Astronomy at UNC, in collaboration with Associate Professor Joseph Tracy in Materials Science and Engineering at NCSU, have recently been awarded a 3-year NSF grant to develop novel optical imaging tools and plasmonic … Read more

The “missing mass” problem is one of the fundamental puzzles in contemporary physics and astronomy.  In recent years, attention has focused on modifications to the source side of Einstein’s equations of general relativity, the simplest of which is to add … Read more

    The Physics & Astronomy Department welcomes Assistant Professor Andrew Mann to the faculty. Andrew did his PhD at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his thesis was on the occurrence and habitability of planets orbiting cool stars. … Read more

Certain types of primitive meteorites contain micrometer-size dust grains with isotopic compositions vastly different from those of any other matter found in the solar system. The only viable explanation for their existence is that they condensed in stellar winds or … Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill scientist and colleagues develop precise calculation for axial coupling. Using the largest supercomputers in the country, scientists have reached a milestone decades in the making. The team, which includes a researcher from the University of North Carolina at Chapel … Read more

ASA DataFest 2018 @ Duke took place over the April 6-8, 2018 at Penn Pavillion with participation from over 380 students in 84 teams from nine schools (Duke, UNC, NC State, Wake Forest, Appalachian State University, NC A&T, NCSSM, College of William and Mary, Meredith). This … Read more