Monster Black Hole Gets Kicked out of Home Galaxy by Gravitational Wave What happens if two black holes collide? Scientists have found evidence that such an event took place during the...

Dr. Eileen Meyer, along with her PhD student Peter Breiding and Dr. Markos Georganopoulos and other colleagues has a new paper published in the Astrophysical Journal.  Using images from the new...

“SmallSat revolution: Tiny satellites poised to make big contributions to essential science” The Conversation, January 26, 2017 URL:...

Sebastian Deffner, assistant professor of physics, has been named a 2017 Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society. Ridge, NY, 18 January 2017 — The American Physical Society (APS) has...

“Thermally managed Z-scan methods investigation of the size-dependent nonlinearity of graphene oxide in various solvents” Paul Burkins, Robinson Kuis, Isaac Basaldua, Anthony M. Johnson, Siva...

Congratulations to our grad students who have advanced into PhD Candidacy over the past year: • Peter Breiding, "Testing the IC/CMB model of extended X-ray emission for large scale quasar jets...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently awarded UMBC with a 5-year funding grant to educate and train underrepresented minority (URM) students in NOAA-related mission...

Sebastian Deffner, assistant professor of physics, has been selected as the winner of the 2016 Leon Heller Postdoctoral Publication Prize in Theoretical Physics. This prize is awarded biennially...

Sebastian Deffner, assistant professor of physics, has been elected as the 2016 winner of the Early Career Award of New Journal of Physics. He has been recognized as being an extremely talented...

Jason Kestner, assistant professor of physics, has received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to perform a theoretical study of stimulated echos in quantum entanglement. His...