Dr. Markos Georganopoulos, an Associate Professor in the Physics Department, has been awarded (PI) a $400K, three-year NASA grant to study the nature of large scale relativistic jets in quasars...
Dr. Anthony Johnson has been invited to take part in the official launch of the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL2015), which will be held at UNESCO Headquarters on 19...
Congratulations to the 10 Physics Department graduate students who advanced into PhD Candidacy during the past year. These students were honored at the Graduate School's annual Doctoral Candidates...
Prof. James D. Franson of the UMBC Physics Department gave a lecture entitled "Entanglement: Einstein's spooky action at a distance" to the Philosophical Society of Washington (PSW) on October 24,...
The UMBC Atmospheric Spectroscopy Laboratory, led by Dr. Larrabee Strow, has been collaborating with NASA/California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) AIRS Project for many...
“Long-Reach Analog Photonics for Military Applications” Vincent J. Urick, John F. Diehl, Joseph M. Singley, Christopher E. Sunderman and Keith J. Williams Optics and Photonics News, 25, (10)...
Dr. Pengwang Zhai joins the UMBC Physics Faculty, Fall 2014. Dr. Zhai's research interests are in light scattering by irregular particles, vector radiative transfer in coupled atmosphere and...
Prof. Theodosia Gougousi, an Associate Professor in the Physics Department, has been awarded a $300K, three-year grant (ECCS-1407677) from the National Science Foundation to study the atomic layer...