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Congratulations to our newly awarded PhD's!

Dr. Barry Baker, Dr. Hong Cai, Dr. Gergely Dolgos, and Dr. Liwang Ye all received their PhD's at the December 2014 graduation ceremony.

Posted: January 16, 2015, 3:35 PM

Dr. Georganopoulos receives NASA ADAP grant

Dr. Markos Georganopoulos, an Associate Professor in the Physics Department, has been awarded (PI) a $400K, three-year NASA grant to study the nature of large scale relativistic jets in quasars...

Posted: December 18, 2014, 2:53 PM

Prof. Johnson invited to participate in IYL2015 in Paris

Dr. Anthony Johnson has been invited to take part in the official launch of the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL2015), which will be held at UNESCO Headquarters on 19...

Posted: December 9, 2014, 11:03 AM

Congratulations to our 10 new PhD Candidates!

Congratulations to the 10 Physics Department graduate students who advanced into PhD Candidacy during the past year. These students were honored at the Graduate School's annual Doctoral Candidates...

Posted: November 11, 2014, 2:43 PM

Dr. Strow's Atmospheric Spectroscopy Group Wins NASA Award

The UMBC Atmospheric Spectroscopy Laboratory, led by Dr. Larrabee Strow, has been collaborating with NASA/California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) AIRS Project for many...

Posted: October 9, 2014, 9:42 AM

New article by PHYS graduate student, John Diehl

“Long-Reach Analog Photonics for Military Applications” Vincent J. Urick, John F. Diehl, Joseph M. Singley, Christopher E. Sunderman and Keith J. Williams Optics and Photonics News, 25, (10)...

Posted: October 8, 2014, 2:52 PM

Welcome to new faculty member: Dr. Pengwang Zhai

Dr. Pengwang Zhai joins the UMBC Physics Faculty, Fall 2014.  Dr. Zhai's research interests are in light scattering by irregular particles, vector radiative transfer in coupled atmosphere and...

Posted: October 8, 2014, 2:31 PM