News & Events:

Job Openings
The Physics Department at NCSU has open faculty positions... [More]

Physics Department announces awards
At the fall faculty meeting of the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences on December 3^rd, a number of Physics Department faculty awards were announced [More]

Department designated a leader in minority education by the American Institute of Physics, the AIP.
In a report issued by the Statistical Research Center of the AIP, the Physics Department is included in a listing of universities that have awarded the most PhDs to African Americans [More]

NC State physics alumna receives 2009 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award
Saskia Mioduszewski (BS '94) has received the 2009 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award from the American Physical Society [More]

Sayers Lecture & Brand Fortner Chair Ceremony
The 3^rd Annual Sayers Lecture & The Brand Fortner Chair Endowment Ceremony will be held Monday, October 6th 2008. [Click here for the Program]

Entering Physics Freshman Class Maintains high standards
The entering class of Freshman who joined the NC State Physics Department this August represent another group of excellent students [More]

The Department is very proud to welcome the Fall08 graduate students
It is at the same time the largest and the best incoming class ever. Overall, 24 Ph.D. and 2 MS students joined the program... [More]

How small is too small to be useful?
Physics Department researchers have done nanoscale analysis on ferroelectric thin films - materials that are used in electronic devices from computer memories to iPhones and polarize when exposed to an electric charge - and found that when it comes to polarization, both size and location matter... [More]

NC State astrophysicists find Galaxy's most recent supernova
NC State professors Stephen Reynolds and Kazimierz Borkowski and collaborators have discovered the remains of the most recent supernova in our Milky Way Galaxy... [More]

Physics Faculty Grows
After a year of active recruiting, the Physics Department is delighted to be welcoming five new members in the fall semester... [More]

NCSU Physics Reaserch blog
NCSU Libraries now have a blog listing current journal articles by Physics researchers. Check it out!

Ray Fornes wins Holladay Medal
Ray Fornes, Professor of Physics and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, has won the 2008 Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence... [More]

Former Physics Graduate Student's work featured as Physical Review "Editors' Suggestion" Paper
The dissertation work of former physics graduate student Eric Adles led to a paper published in Physical Review B entitled "Application of the anisotropic bond model to second-harmonic generation from amorphous media." The paper was selected to be included as an "Editors' Suggestion" paper... [More]

NC State Physics Senior awarded prestigious fellowship
Senior Kasey Phillips has been awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship... [More]

NC State Nuclear Physics team gets cover story
In an experimental program in collaboration with colleagues at Harvard, Yale, and NIST, a team of NC State nuclear physicists have their work featured on the cover of "The Review of Scientific Instruments." The work highlights an invited article that describes their work on a specific kind of high-field superconducting magnetic traps... [More]

Graduate Student's work featured in "Physical Review Focus"
NC State Physics graduate student Josh Beun's research has been featured on the Physical Review website dedicated to highlighting recent important discoveries... [More]

Physics Department Professor Emerita passes away
Members of the physics department family were shocked to hear of the passing of recent retiree and Professor Emerita Marjorie Klenin on January 19th... [More]

NCSU Physics Faculty win INCITE Award
Four NC State Physicists were included in DOE's 2008 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) Awards for access to some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers at DOE national laboratories... [More]

The 2008 Thomas Lecture to feature 1996 Chemistry Laureate Sir Harold Kroto
This year's L. H. Thomas Lecture will be held on February 26th, in the Dale E. Sayers Auditorium (Riddick 301) at 4:00pm, tea begins at 3:30 in the Riddick Hearth... [Abstract]

The Physics Department loses a Colleague.
Friends and colleagues of the physics department family were saddened to hear of the passing of Professor Emeritus David Martin on December 12th... [More]

Professor Robert Golub Named APS Fellow
Physics Professor Robert Golub has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society... [More]

Invited Talk: Stefan Baessler, University of Virginia
Abstract: "The study of gravitionally bound neutron states".
Location: Cox 400 conference room
When: December 14 from 3:30-5:00
Host: Professor Robert Golub

NCSU Physics Major named Marshall Scholar
Brian Clark '08, Physics major, Caldwell Fellow and University Scholar, has been named a Marshall Scholar... [More]