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We are delighted to announce that Dr. Henrique Barbosa has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 LHFA Excellence in Research and Creative Achievement Award. This award recognizes exceptional...

Dr. Zhibo Zhang has received the CNMS Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award for 2023. This CNMS College-level award recognizes excellence in scholarship, teaching, and service/leadership by a...

PhD student Cory Nunn has recently been awarded a Post Doctoral Fellowship through the highly competitive National Research Council (NRC) Research Associateships Program (RAP) . Cory is currently...

Professor Matthew Pelton of the UMBC Physics Department was recently named 2023 Presidential Research Professor - one of the highest awards given at UMBC. Professor Pelton is an experimental...

Physics graduate students, faculty, and staff enjoyed the weather and walked around Hilltop Circle during lunchtime on February 24, 2023.

Seven current and former UMBC Physics faculty members are included among the top 2% of world scientists based on career citations. The detailed data and methodology can be found here:...

Natural dust particles and human-produced pollutants in the atmosphere affect Earth’s overall energy budget in different and nuanced ways. A new three-year, $620,000 NSF grant led by Zhibo Zhang,...

UMBC Physics PhD student Kamal Aryal, his PhD advisor Pengwang Zhai and their collaborators from NASA Goddard Space Flight center has recently published their work in Applied Optics. In this work,...

UMBC physics Ph.D. graduate Brian Uthe, his Ph.D. advisor Matthew Pelton, and their collaborator John Sader (currently at CalTech) recently published a review of work by their group and others...

Congratulations to our graduate students who have advanced into PhD Candidacy over the past year: Atmospheric Physics Program Adeleke Segun Ademakinwa, Advisor: Zhibo Zhang "Can biased cloud...