Martin Kamela

Karelle Siellez, of Georgia Tech and the LIGO collaboration, presented recent results on the detection (and the confirmation of existence) of gravitational waves from two colliding black holes, a billion light years away.

The 2006 physics and math alumna discusses her work at the Institute for the Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

It was a full house on Friday, Oct. 16 for the presentation by Harvard University professor and Dean of Applied Physics, Eric Mazur, as part of the McMichael Colloquium Series. Dr. Mazur presented his biophysics work on the use of lasers to ablate and explore the functions of subcellular structures.

Physics senior,  Elena (Helen) Meskhidze, wins the 2015 SPS / SSAI Academic Scholarship

Four Physics Department members attended and presented at the Summer 2015 National AAPT Meeting, July 24-29, at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

Helen Meskhidze '16 and Associate professor Tony Crider were honored at the North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers' spring meeting.  

In collaboration with colleagues from two other institutions, Assistant Professor Sirena Hargrove-Leak has received a grant of more than $161,000 from the National Science Foundation to research and reform the way science and engineering students learn in laboratory settings.