Tag: astrophysics

Published on Feb 6, 2020

Alumna Astronaut Koch Returns to Earth

Look back on some of the highlights of Christina Koch's 11-month International Space Station mission. 

Published on Dec 14, 2019

Physics Nobel Prizes 2019: Discovering Humanity’s Place in the Universe

The N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences will host Don Ellison from the Department of Physics to discuss the importance of recent discoveries about the universe and where future work may lead us. 

Published on Nov 6, 2019

Adventures Abroad

Physics Ph.D. student Sanjana Curtis chronicles her five weeks of research and learning in Europe. 

Published on Aug 30, 2019

What Does the Universe Look Like?

We asked NC State Sciences professor Katie Mack and NC State Engineering professor Laura Bottomley to answer some popular out-of-this-world questions. 

Published on May 22, 2019

Goldwater Scholar Ana Sofia Uzsoy: Intelligent Life

Goldwater Scholar and physics major Ana Sofia Uzsoy is doing research to help us understand the universe at every scale. 

Published on Jan 17, 2019

Disorientation: A Science Poem by Katie Mack

Astrophysicist Katie Mack encourages us to "see [our] world from four billion miles away" in this poem, presented in text and video formats. 

Published on Jul 14, 2018

Blondin Named Senior Associate Dean for Administration

John Blondin, an internationally prominent astrophysicist, has been named the college's new senior associate dean for administration. 

Published on May 30, 2018

Alumna Assigned to International Space Station Mission

NC State alumna Christina Hammock Koch is slated to serve as a flight engineer on an April 2019 NASA mission. 

Published on Sep 13, 2017

Star Searcher

In this video, see how astrophysicist Carla Fröhlich learns about the chemical elements all around us by studying faraway stars and supernovae. 

Published on Aug 23, 2017

Physicist Richard Longland Receives DOE Early Career Research Award

The prestigious award will support Longland's research on the life cycles of stars, with the goal of better understanding how the elements in the universe were made.