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On Monday, April 29, 2024, Physics graduate students, Kamal Aryal, Maurice Roots, Tony La Luna, Adeleke Ademakinwa, Roshan Mishra, along with GES students, Rhonda Plofkin and Erin Hamner,...

Data from the HARP2 instrument is now available. Please see the UMBC news release and the NASA press release for more details. The first images from PACE’s HARP2 polarimeter captured data...

As part of the Curious Kids series on The Conversation, Assistant Professor Adi Foord writes about our ability to see the beginning of time with NASA's recent flagship mission The James Webb Space...

Adeleke Ademakinwa and Hannah Seppala were selected for Best Student Presentation/Poster Awards by the American Meteorology Society at the 104th AMS Annual Meeting. Both Adeleke and Hannah...

On February 8, 2024, A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite for NASA from Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex at 1:33 a.m. EST. Over the...

Dr. Reshma Mathew was honored with the Best Poster Award at the I-APS meeting. Event: Inter-American Photochemistry Meeting at Miramar Beach, Florida, January 3-6, 2024. Poster Title:...

Dr. Deffner has been elected into the chair line of the Topical Group on Statistical & Nonlinear Physics (GSNP) of the American Physical Society. The objective of the Topical Group is the...

Ph.D. in Atmospheric Physics: Neranga Prasadi Kaluappuwa Hannadige Mentor: Dr. Pengwang Zhai "Remote Sensing of Aerosols and Ocean Color with Multi-Angle Polarimeters and Spectro-Radiometers"...

Sebastian Deffner, associate professor of physics, attended "Quantum Science and Technology: Recent Advances and New Perspectives," a workshop hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in...

Entangled photons display counterintuitive correlations that are stronger than anything allowed by classical physics - something Einstein once called "spooky action at a distance". They are now...