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Congratulations to our grad students who have advanced into PhD Candidacy over the past year: • Peter Breiding, "Testing the IC/CMB model of extended X-ray emission for large scale quasar jets...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently awarded UMBC with a 5-year funding grant to educate and train underrepresented minority (URM) students in NOAA-related mission...

Sebastian Deffner, assistant professor of physics, has been selected as the winner of the 2016 Leon Heller Postdoctoral Publication Prize in Theoretical Physics. This prize is awarded biennially...

Sebastian Deffner, assistant professor of physics, has been elected as the 2016 winner of the Early Career Award of New Journal of Physics. He has been recognized as being an extremely talented...

Jason Kestner, assistant professor of physics, has received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to perform a theoretical study of stimulated echos in quantum entanglement. His...

Dr. Pittman has been selected as the recipient of the 2016 Carl S. Weber Excellence in Teaching Award. The Carl S. Weber Excellence in Teaching Award honors a CNMS faculty member at UMBC with...

Tucked in an office on the fourth floor of the Physics Building, you will find Paul Ciotta who can claim the title of UMBC’s Senior Exempt Employee. Though Paul officially joined the UMBC...

"Efficient metallic spintronic emitters of ultrabroadband terahertz radiation" T. Seifert, S. Jaiswal, U. Martens, J. Hannegan, L. Braun, P. Maldonado, F. Freimuth, A. Kronenberg, J. Henrizi,...

“Electron transfer from single semiconductor nanocrystals to individual acceptor molecules” Haixu Leng, James Loy, Victor Amin, Emily A. Weiss, and Matthew Pelton ACS Energy Letters, Vol. 1,...

Dr. Zhibo Zhang was just awarded the IRC (International Radiation Commission) Young Scientist Award. This very coveted international award is given out only every four years. It is awarded to...