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

NC Space Grant is excited to announce the recipients of the 2021-22 Undergraduate Research Scholarships and Graduate Research Fellowships. Joining the NC Space Grant family from universities across the state, these students will be involved in research spanning different science, … Continued

UNC researchers Jianping Lu and Otto Zhou have spent the last two decades refining technology that makes X-ray machines smaller, faster, safer, and produce clearer images-research that’s changing the world of dentistry, medicine, and security.  In 2005 Jianping’s son was … Continued

In a recent article that appears on the Sigma Pi Sigma website that will later be distributed in print, UNC’s own Laurie McNeil writes about the many changes in the ever evolving methods of teaching Physics and how they are … Continued

APS Government Affairs (APS GA) is proud to announce 12 society members have been selected as Five Sigma Physicist awardees for their outstanding advocacy work that included taking multiple actions during the past year and maintaining communication with APS GA … Continued

Physics and Astronomy’s own Yaqi Hou has won a Dissertation Completion Fellowship. This fellowship supports doctoral students in the final year of the dissertation by enabling them to focus full time on research and writing. Compressibility as a function of … Continued

We are excited to share that one of our former Physics majors (2017) Enrique Toloza, has won the P.D. Soros Fellowship for New Americans Award. This award is for immigrants and the children of immigrants based on merit with an … Continued

NSF just announced their Graduate Research Fellowship Program award winners and we are pleased to announce Taylor Stevenson and Joseph Moscoso have both received fellowship awards. This five year fellowship includes three years of financial support as well as a … Continued

The Diversity Committee of the Department of Physics and Astronomy would like to offer more than just words as our hearts go out to Asian/Americans recently traumatized by mass violence, and to all in our community who live daily with … Continued

It’s no secret that active learning helps students learn and retain more information than they would from traditional, lecture-only instruction.  A new paper by Colin Wallace, a Teaching Associate Professor in our Department, and his colleagues at the University of … Continued

Our department chair, Christian Iliadis, recently appeared on Planet Gabo and the Player vs Life Podcast. The title of the podcast was “The Cosmos: The Influence of Astrophysics and Sci-Fi.” The interviewer, Gabriel Espinoza, writes about his “Player vs Life … Continued