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The American Institute of Physics (AIP) recognizes the UMBC Physics Department for awarding a large percentage of PhD's to women. AIP recently released a comprehensive report providing a...

UMBC Physics BS graduate, Jonathan McHenry (class of 2009) and Associate Professor Laszlo Takacs’s paper, “Temperature of the milling balls in shaker and planetary mills”, Journal of Materials...

In their roles as Research Scientists at the Army Research Laboratory (Adelphi, MD), recent UMBC graduates Dr. Brian Kirby '15 and Dr. Dan Jones '16 have discovered a novel way to safeguard...

Reflecting the growth of our PhD programs, a record high 11 physics department grad students advanced to PhD Candidacy this year. These students and their mentors were honored at the Graduate...

“Accurate Predictions of Electron Binding Energies of Dipole-Bound Anions via Quantum Monte Carlo Methods” Hongxia Hao, James Shee, Shiv Upadhyay, Can Ataca, Kenneth D. Jordan, and Brenda M....

Dr. Sebastian Deffner, assistant professor of physics, wins a grant from the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) to advance his research on stochastic thermodynamics for driven quantum field...

Dr. Ataca, assistant professor of physics, and his collaborator Prof. Brenda Rubenstein from the Department of Chemistry at Brown University win a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF)...

“Strong coupling and induced transparency at room temperature with single quantum dots and gap plasmons.” Physics graduate student Haixu Leng and his advisor Matthew Pelton, together with their...

Erick Shepard, a senior undergraduate student, just finished a successful summer internship at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Working with NASA scientist Dr. Hongbin Yu and physics professor...

“Oxygen-dependent laser inactivation of murine norovirus using visible light lasers” David Kingsley, Robinson Kuis, Rafael Perez, Isaac Basaldua, Paul Burkins, Aristides Marcano and Anthony...