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Dr. Yoon-Ho Kim (PhD '01) named UMBC Alumni of the Year

The UMBC Alumni Association has named Dr. Yoon-Ho Kim (PhD '01) as the 2015 "UMBC Alumni of the year" for the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. Dr. Kim received his PhD from Prof....

Posted: September 11, 2015, 9:51 AM

Simulations Show Planet Driving Waves in Star Debris Disk

UMBC physics graduate student Erika Nesvold has developed a state-of-the-art 3-D numerical simulation of the star Beta Pictoris. The work was part of her PhD thesis under the mentorship of Dr....

Posted: August 10, 2015, 11:10 AM

Dr. Lorraine Remer Elected Fellow of AGU

Dr. Lorraine Remer, a Research Professor of Physics Department (also affiliated with the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems) and a senior research scientist of JCET, has been...

Posted: July 31, 2015, 10:03 AM

New article by Dr. Sanjit Karmakar & Ronald Meyers

Color controllable polarization entanglement generation in optical fiber at telecommunication wavelengths   Sanjit Karmakar and Ronald E. Meyers Optics Express Vol. 23, Issue 16, pp....

Posted: July 31, 2015, 9:56 AM

Welcome to new faculty member: Dr. Eileen Meyer

Dr. Eileen Meyer joins the UMBC Physics faculty in the fall of 2015. As a multi-wavelength observational astronomer, her research focuses on the physics jets from the black holes at the centers...

Posted: May 15, 2015, 1:01 PM

Prof. Turner featured in Baltimore Sun article

Study finds gas flowing from black hole could stunt galaxy growth By Scott Dance The Baltimore Sun http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-black-hole-growth-20150327-story.html

Posted: March 31, 2015, 3:18 PM

Congratulations to our 2015-16 URA and URAS Awardees

James Loy  "Charge Transfer from Single Semiconductor Nanocrystals to Single Molecules"  Advisor: Dr. Pelton  2015-2016 URA Scholar John Hannegan  "Creating a Fiber-Laser Based THz System Using...

Posted: March 27, 2015, 3:55 PM