An international team of scientists has announced a breakthrough in its quest to measure the mass of the neutrino, one of the most abundant, yet elusive, elementary particles in our universe. The KATRIN experiment is based at the Karlsruhe … Continued

Amy is a doctoral student in physics and astronomy who studies potentially habitable planets in our galaxy using the Evryscope, the first gigapixel-scale all-sky telescope that images the entire visible sky every two minutes. Please follow the link to read … Continued

https://gradprofdev.unc.edu/student-profile-jessica-barrick/ UNC’s Graduate School did a student profile on one of our own, Jessica Barrick in regards to her participation in 3MT. Follow the link for the article.

    Laurie McNeil has been awarded the 2019 George B. Pegram Award of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society. The prize recognizes physics educators who have demonstrated outstanding ability in undergraduate education. It has been 20 years … Continued

Pa Chia Thao decided she wanted to become a scientist in sixth grade, but she rarely saw other women — let alone women of color   — in her STEM classes or textbooks. “I remember in high school I took a … Continued

Michele Kelley took her first physics course in college, and only because it was required for her aerospace major. “After I took the first class, I officially switched my major,” she says. Now, the UNC-Chapel Hill doctoral student in physics and … Continued

‘Walking in the footsteps of men who walked on the moon’    Carolina’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center played a pivotal role   in American space exploration and discovery, including helping put a man on the moon.   By Emilie Poplett, … Continued

  Before Neil Armstrong made his giant leap for mankind, he first walked through the doors of the University’s Morehead Planetarium. From training the country’s earliest astronauts to uncovering new knowledge about the universe, the University of North Carolina at … Continued

  Former UNC Chapel Hill PhD student Kent Price recently attended a meeting of the PICUP (Partnership for Integration of Computation into Undergraduate Physics) community, and discovered he was one of five UNC alums among an estimated 60 participants and … Continued

  “First, communication skills, particularly writing. Next, the ability to analyze a complex problem. Finally, grit and determination.”  Lab director Dr. Amy Oldenburg shares three skills necessary to do her job in SPIE Professional Magazine.   Amy’s story can be … Continued

      David Hill’s lab was part of a paper featured in last month’s Science Translational Medicine that resulted from a 10 year collaborator between UNC and the University of Western Australia and their AREST CF group that worked … Continued

The Cosmostatistics Initiative (COIN), a worldwide interdisciplinary community created to unlock cosmic puzzles, has entered into a strategic agreement with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope-Dark Energy Science Collaboration (LSST-DESC). The LSST is expected to begin observations in 2021 and is one of … Continued