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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...

Prof. James D. Franson of the UMBC Physics Department gave a lecture entitled "Entanglement: Einstein's spooky action at a distance" to the Philosophical Society of Washington (PSW) on October 24,...

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...

“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)...

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...

Dr. Belay Demoz joins the UMBC Physics Faculty, Fall 2014. He is also the new Director of the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET).

Prof. Theodosia Gougousi, an Associate Professor in the Physics Department, has been awarded a $300K, three-year grant (ECCS-1407677) from the National Science Foundation to study the atomic layer...

Daniel Miller won a coveted NASA Earth and Space Science fellowship, or NESSF. This is a highly competitive fellowship. NASA received 410 applications this year in Earth Science Research area and...

Dr. Sergio DeSouza-Machado, JCET Research Assistant Professor affiliated with the Physics Department, has been selected for a NASA Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES 2013)...

Prof. Zhibo Zhang, an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department, and his collaborators have been awarded a three-year grant of $710K from NASA’s Sciences of Terra and Aqua program to study the...