We are pleased to announce that Morgan Clark has been named an outstanding graduate student by the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program (SCGSR). Awardees spend 3 to 12 months at a DOE National Laboratory working closely with experts … Continued

We are sharing the recording of the “How the System Works” info session held last month by the The Physics & Astronomy Diversity Committee. This info session — presented by undergrad + grad students and P&A faculty — can be … Continued

Prof Mersini-Houghton interview by Physics World at IoP about her theory of the origin of the universe from a quantum landscape multiverse and its observational tested predictions. Follow the link below to listen to the Pod Cast titled “Probing the … Continued

The National Science Foundation CAREER Awards are in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors in the context of their organizations’ missions. The awards, presented once each … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

  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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

  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 … Continued