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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...

Matt Pelton, assistant professor of physics, has received the prominent CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance his research on vibrating nanoparticles. His award totals...

Dr. Anthony M. Johnson, UMBC Professor of Physics, Professor of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering (CSEE) and Director of CASPR (Center for Advanced Studies in Photonics Research), was...

Before Comet ISON was destroyed by its close approach to the Sun in November 2013, astronomers at UMBC contributed to a world-wide campaign to study the coma morphology of this comet.  Using...

"Thermal diffusivity and heat capacity of SiGe/Si superlattice from 374K to 674K" Anthony Davidson, M.Twigg, P.E.Thompson, T. Worchesky Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 107, Issue 14, Page 1...

On September 29th and 30th, Dr. Jane Turner and Dr. Ian George filmed an episode of NASA's Unexplained Files for The Discovery Channel (via the WagTV production company http://www.wagtv.com)....