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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...

Professor Zhibo Zhang, an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department, is selected to receive the NASA New (Early Career) Investigator Program (NIP) awards in Earth Science. The NIP is a highly...

Professor Hayden acts as a Topical Editor for Optics Letters in the areas of nonlinear optics, THz generation, and organic and molecular electronics. Optics Letters offers rapid dissemination of...

Adriana Lima-Roche (pictured left) received the Atmospheric Sciences Outstanding Student Paper Award at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (December 2013) in San Francisco, CA for her...

Dr. Hayden's group publishes a paper on nanoporous silicon that is one of the top 10 downloaded papers in January from Optics Materials Express: Ultrafast carrier dynamics and optical...

How To See The Stars With Andrew Vaché, laboratory specialist, Department of Physics. https://umbc.edu/stories/how-to-see-the-stars/

Dr. Malachi Tatum (left) and Dr. Patricia Sawamura (right) pose next to "True Grit" after receiving their PhD's at the December 2013 graduation ceremony.

Qubscout-S1 was launched on November 21 at 2:10 a.m. from a launch site in Yasny, Russia on a Dnepr LV rocket. PI: J. Vanderlei Martins Head Engineer: J. Dominik Cieslak

Viewpoint: It's a Good Time for Time-Bin Qubits Qubits encoded in time advance the prospects for quantum computing with single photons. Physics 6, 110 (2013)...