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Ƶ senior and alumni awarded National Science Foundation fellowships
May 1, 2025
Two Ƶ alumni have been selected for the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program, and one senior has been named an honorable mention.
Ƶ hosts Integrating Research in Science conference for STEM undergraduates
April 16, 2025
The regional STEM conference for undergraduate students, called Integrating Research in Science (IRIS), celebrates interdisciplinary interactions by bringing together the realms of STEM and STEM-related fields.
Fifteen students selected as 2025 Lumen Scholars
April 11, 2025
The university's top undergraduate research award comes with $20,000 to support and celebrate academic and creative achievements.
Ƶ Lecturer Claudine R. Moreau earns multiple honors in 2025 NC Poetry Society Contests
April 3, 2025
Moreau won first, second and finalist honors in statewide poetry contests
Ƶ’s Physics and Astronomy department hosts statewide conference
April 1, 2025
Over 80 educators and students from North Carolina and Virginia visited Ƶ's Innovation Hall for the 2025 Spring Meeting of the North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers.
Integrating Research in Science conference to be held April 12
March 25, 2025
The conference was established in 2018 to give students from smaller institutions without the resources of major universities the opportunity to present their research and interact with students from other colleges and universities.
Celestial mechanics on display as Ƶ hosts lunar eclipse viewing event
March 17, 2025
Nearly 120 Ƶ students, faculty, and staff gathered to observe the moon passing into Earth’s shadow during a total lunar eclipse.
Richardson co-authors two publications about relic black holes revealed with JWST
February 14, 2025
Simulations created by Associate Professor Chris Richardson have helped reveal elusive black holes observed with the James Webb Space Telescope
Ƶ physics professor guides Antarctic expeditions with National Geographic
December 17, 2024
Tim Martin, instructor in physics, will make his fifth and sixth trips to Antarctica this Winter Term with National Geographic Lindblad Expeditions. As an expedition guide, he leads passengers on excursions and teaches about geology, meteorology and astronomy.
Emeritus professor co-organizes mathematics workshop
November 18, 2024
Pranab Das, professor emeritus of physics, is a co-organizer of the workshop “Modeling Multi-Scale Collective Intelligences” at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA.