Phi Beta Kappa honor society inducted 144 new members into its UNC chapter during a ceremony on November 9, 2015. Remarks at the event were given by Emil Kang, UNC Executive Director for the Arts and the Executive and Artistic … Read more

Data recently published by the American Institute of Physics shows that UNC Physics and Astronomy averaged 29 bachelor’s degrees from 2012 – 2014. The organization recognized UNC among national physics programs with PhD programs that have averaged granting 20 or … Read more

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Takaaki Kajita of University of Tokyo, in Kashiwa Japan, and Art McDonald of Queens University in Ontario, Canada. McDonald led a research project that included physicists at the University of North Carolina … Read more

UNC researchers are developing 3D x-ray technology for the dental industry that will provide more detailed images for diagnosis and care. The technology, called 3D Intraoral Imaging, was developed by UNC physics professors Otto Zhou and Jianping Lu. It utilizes … Read more

The theory of the origin of our universe from the landscape multiverse developed by Prof. Mersini-Houghton at UNC-Chapel Hill was recently featured in the BBC-Horizon documentary ‘Which universe are we in’, where Prof. Mersini-Houghton is interviewed. The existence of several … Read more

UNC-CH Chancellor Carol Folt welcomed Stephen Hawking on Monday before he delivered a lecture to kick off the Hawking Radiation Conference in Stockholm, Sweden. The conference is co-sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Nordic Institute … Read more

Inside Higher Ed has profiled the Association of American Universities’ undergraduate science initiative, including efforts at UNC to improve introductory-level science courses through innovative teaching methods that pull emphasis away from the traditional lecture model and encourage participatory, immersive learning. … Read more

First-year UNC Physics and Astronomy graduate student Casey Berger was recently profiled by the University in a Spotlight article. Berger is a Royster Fellow, one of only 29 selected worldwide by the UNC graduate school for this academic year, and … Read more

Stephen Hawking and other renowned physicists will be attending a conference on Hawking Radiation during the week of August 24-29 in Stockholm, Sweden. The purpose of the conference is to discuss whether singularities exist in black holes and the role … Read more

A telescope designed by UNC Professor Nicholas Law and his team is profiled in the latest issue of Science Magazine. The Everyscope, which takes images of the whole sky every two minutes to look for exoplanets transiting in front of … Read more

UNC physics professor Christian Iliadis publishes the second, enlarged edition of a textbook, entitled “Nuclear Physics of Stars”. The first edition, published in 2007, has been widely used by instructors for teaching classes on nuclear astrophysics and has become the … Read more

Ryan Petersburg, a senior physics and music major at UNC, has won an Undergraduate Research Presentation Award at the APS April meeting that was held in Baltimore from April 11-14. His poster presented work completed as part of his Honor’s … Read more