Congratulations to Dan Reichart on receiving the Emmons Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, for “demonstrating outstanding achievement in the teaching of college-level introductory astronomy for non-majors”. More info here.
A new review article by Tyndall et al is featured on the cover of the Journal of American Dental Association. The article describes “Four emerging technologies with promise”, 2 out of those 4 come from Otto Zhou’s lab: intraoral tomosynthesis … Read more
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill students, David Stilwell and Sophie Kressy participated in the American Physical Society Congressional Visits Day to advocate for legislation that would benefit US science goals and our scientific community. Grad students and postdocs in … Read more
Zack is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, to carry out research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The fellowship supports postdoctoral fellows performing impactful research in MPS fields while broadening the … Read more
NSF just announced their Graduate Research Fellowship Program award winners and we are pleased to announce Andy Boyle received a fellowship award. This five-year fellowship includes three years of financial support as well as a cost of education allowance. Andy is … Read more
The paper “Two-Pole Nature of the Λ(1405) Resonance from Lattice QCD” published by the Baryon Scattering (BaSc) collaboration was recently accepted as editors’ suggestion in the Physical Review Letters. The accompanying paper “Lattice QCD study of πΣ−KN scattering and the … Read more
The “Final Result of the Majorana Demonstrator’s Search for Neutrinoless Double-β Decay in 76Ge,” caught the eye of the scientific community becoming the most downloaded Nuclear Physics related paper that was published in Physical Review Letters in 2023. From 2015 … Read more
A technological advance in medical and dental imaging promises to improve diagnostic accuracy while minimizing patient exposure to radiation, according to a research article in the Nature journal Communications Engineering. In the article, “Volumetric Computed Tomography with Carbon Nanotube X-Ray Source Array … Read more
Carl Rodriguez, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, has been awarded the 2024 Helen B. Warner Prize from the American Astronomical Society. AAS recently announced its 2024 prizes for outstanding achievements in research and education at its 243rd meeting in New Orleans. … Read more
December 19, 2023, Chapel Hill, North Carolina – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) has once again secured the coveted Outstanding Chapter Award from the SPS National Office. This marks … Read more
James T. Dobbins III, PhD, FAAPM, FSPIE, BSPHYS ’78 (UNC-CH), received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023 from the Society of Directors of Academic Medical Physics Programs, Inc (SDAMPP). Dobbins, now retired, spent his entire 37-year career on the faculty … Read more
The Graduate-to-Undergraduate (G2U) Mentoring program at the University of North Carolina’s Department of Physics & Astronomy (P&A) has recently been awarded a $6,998 grant for unit enhancement by the College of Arts and Sciences’ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) … Read more
