physics

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.

Aug 1, 2017

Physics App Selected for a 2017 Campus Technology Impact Award

An app created to help NC State physics students better understand complex experiments has won a national award.

Jun 14, 2017

Huffman Named Head of Physics Department at NC State

Paul Huffman, a prominent nuclear physicist, has been named the new head of the Department of Physics.

Jun 9, 2017

Physicists Use Numerical ‘Tweezers’ to Study Nuclear Interactions

An NC State physics researcher is using numerical tweezers to study how interactions between protons and neutrons produce forces between nuclei.

May 11, 2017

Tracking the Protein Patrollers

A nanoprobe developed by NC State biophysicists could allow researchers to trace the movements of different proteins along DNA – without the drawbacks of current methods.

May 8, 2017

Physicist McLaughlin Named Distinguished University Professor

The College of Sciences has named Gail McLaughlin a University Distinguished Professor of Physics.

Apr 28, 2017

Hybrid Digital-Analog Circuits Can Increase Computational Power of Chaos-Based Systems

Combining digital and analog components in nonlinear, chaos-based integrated circuits can improve their computational power.

Apr 27, 2017

Physicist Ade Named Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Professor

The physicist is breaking new ground with his work on carbon electronics and fabricating more efficient plastic solar cells.

Apr 7, 2017

Genetics Undergraduate Earns Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship

Connor McKenney, a junior majoring in genetics, was named one of 240 winners of the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship this year.

Apr 4, 2017

Nonequilibrium Physics Explained: 5 Questions With Lex Kemper

Lex Kemper uses a new method of probing poorly understood materials, like superconductors, to find out what makes them tick.