Every year, our Department celebrates our excellent staff with three awards. This year, the awardees are: Jhon Cimmino – Donna Braxton Staff Excellence Award (top comments) Shane Brogan – Team Player Award (top comments) Cassandra Houston – Personal Achievement Award … Read more
The Ally Spotlight is a new project from the Diversity Committee designed to celebrate staff, faculty, and students who have taken the initiative to develop their allyship skills to help foster a more inclusive department. This month, we are featuring … Read more
The Department of Physics and Astronomy’s own, Laurie McNeil, was one of 3 people elected from the Council of Representatives of the American Physical Society to join the Board of Directors from 2022-2024. The Board has overall responsibility for the … Read more
Graduate students from Physics & Astronomy and the Department of Chemistry pioneered a peer mentorship initiative, alongside the Graduate School’s professional development program in order to better serve incoming graduate students. In 2020, Department of Physics Ph.D. first-year student Taylor Robinson came to UNC-Chapel Hill … Read more
A group of graduate students led by associate professor Nick Law have spent the past year designing, engineering and developing a prototype for a new telescope system that will allow researchers to explore phenomena that no one has been capable … Read more
A new dental imaging system that can help dentists see tooth decay earlier and in greater detail has received regulatory clearance and is expected to be commercially available by the end of the year from its developer, Surround Medical Systems of Morrisville. … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
