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Dr. Michael Brown

The Morgan Science Lecture 2017 - Dr. Michael Brown
Apr 6, 2017

Photo by Eric OrtizThe annual Morgan Science Lecture series continued on March 23 with speaker Dr. Michael Brown, who is best known for his part in th...

NASA grant awarded to Dr. Sid Clements
Feb 21, 2017

Dr Sid Clements received a NASA grant of $20,000 for his work on electrostatic charge relaxation, which seeks to explain the possible presence of ligh...

NIH grant awarded to Drs. Hester and Culpepper
Feb 3, 2017

Dr. Brooke Hester and Dr. Megen Culpepper have been awarded $128,382 over the next two years by the National Institute of Health for initial flav...

P and A club receives the Marsh White Award!
Jan 25, 2017

The Physics and Astronomy club received a Marsh White Award from AIP/APS/SPS for their "edible laser" proposal, a work done under the supervision of D...

NASA grant awarded to Dr. Rachel Smith
Jan 18, 2017

Dr. Rachel Smith's proposal, “Investigating Carbon Inheritance in the Early Solar Nebula: An Interdisciplinary Approach,” has been funded by NASA ...

New 3+2 (Double Degree) Program with NC State in Materials Science and Engineering!
Jul 22, 2015

The Department of Physics and Astronomy is delighted to announce the formal establishment of a 3+2 (Double Degree) Program with NC  State in Mate...

Dr. Conrad and students Jason Baptiste, Christopher Manning, and Andrew Zeidell working in the lab with the tunneling electron telescope and the solar tracker.

Summer Happenings
Jun 25, 2015

Dr. Conrad and students Jason Baptiste, Christopher Manning, and Andrew Zeidell working in the lab with the tunneling electron telescope and the solar...

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Student Alex Mandarino to Work at NIST as a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow
Apr 28, 2015

Undergraduate student, Alex Mandario, will be working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology through their Summer Undergraduate Re...

Dr. Dan Caton

Dr. Caton's Monthly Newspaper Column Published
Apr 21, 2015

Dr. Dan Caton writes a monthly column in the Charlotte Observer and Raleigh News & Observer. This's month's article came out yesterday where he wr...

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Student to Intern at the Space Telescope Science Institute this Summer
Apr 21, 2015

Michael Tucker, an Applied Physics major, has been awarded an internship in the 2015 Space Astronomy Summer Program at the Space Telescope Science Ins...