astrophysics
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.
Katie Mack and JJ Eldridge: Cosmic Endgames
Astrophysicists Katie Mack of NC State and JJ Eldridge of the University of Auckland will give a public talk as part of the Fifty-One Erg workshop.
Watch Christina Koch Launch Into Space
Join us for a live screening of NC State alumna Christina Koch's launch to the International Space Station.
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.
A Scientist Loose in America’s Library: Studying Astrobiology at the Library of Congress
Hear from Lucianne Walkowicz, chair of astrobiology at the Library of Congress and an astronomer at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, about the search for and study of life in the universe.
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.
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.
Coffee and Viz — Visualizing the Invisible: Gravitational Waves, Neutron Stars and X-Ray Binaries
Physicist John Blondin will take you on an astronomical journey from massive stars to gravitational waves using visualizations from current research in computational astrophysics.
Science Cafe — Gravitational Waves: Ripples in Space-Time
Join NC State astrophysicist Katie Mack to learn about gravitational waves, why they matter, how we find them, and how they are opening a whole new window to the universe.
Star Searcher
In this video, see how astrophysicist Carla Fröhlich learns about the chemical elements all around us by studying faraway stars and supernovae.