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 since UNC-CH has last won this prize (1999, by Kian Dy)
Art Champagne and Christian Iliadis have won the 2019 Jesse W. Beams Research Award of the Southeastern Section of the American Physics Society for “Their research leadership in experimental nuclear astrophysics, especially for the conception and development of their measurement program of thermonuclear reaction rates at TUNL’s Laboratory for Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics”. Only one other faculty from UNC-CH (Lawrence Slifkin, 1977) has won the prize before.