Physics
Physicist Hollen Honored as Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator
Physics professor Shawna Hollen has received a major honor from the Moore Foundation. Read More
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07/16/24Neutron Star Insights Move from Theoretical to Data-Driven
Neutron stars — dead stars with a mass of up to two times our Sun squeezed into a ball the size of New Hampshire’s coastline — are among the densest... -
03/20/24Predicting Solar Weather With Machine Learning
New grants from NASA and the National Science Foundation further UNH research into magnetospheric processes. -
02/13/23Prescod-Weinstein Honored with Cottrell Scholar Award
UNH's Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is among 25 recipients of the prestigious Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement... -
10/24/22Testing a Fundamental Force
UNH PhD candidate DAvid Ruth, lead author on a recent Nature Physics article. Photo by Sydney Staples. New research from a team of physicists led...
Recent Stories
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04/22/21 - Three Students Awarded SMART ScholarshipThree UNH students were recently awarded Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarships through the Department of Defense (DoD), cementing the... Read More -
04/16/21 - A Simple Instrument for Outer SpaceUNH researchers have been awarded $50,000 to design a compact, relatively simple space instrument to measure protons in the solar wind. Read More -
01/25/21 - Excellence in CitationsForty-one current and emeritus UNH researchers are among the world's 100,000 most cited, according to a new study. Read More -
12/15/20 - A Force in PhysicsNature magazine has selected assistant professor of physics Chanda Prescod-Weinstein to its "Nature's 10" list of 10 people who helped shape science in 2020. Read More -
10/12/20 - Excellence, Times TwoChanda Prescod-Weinstein, assistant professor of physics and core faculty in women’s and gender studies at UNH, has received the American Physical Society’s (APS) Edward A.... Read More -
08/23/20 - UNH Researchers Join National Physics Frontier CenterResearchers at the University of New Hampshire were selected to join a newly formed Network for Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries Physics Frontier Center (PFC)... Read More -
04/29/20 - Rising Research StarIn the early stages of his career, assistant professor of physics and materials science Jiadong Zang is making waves. For his research prowess, Zang was recently selected as the ... Read More -
02/28/20 - Rocketing Toward His FutureThe first time Thomas Collins’ father took him up in a plane at the Hampton Airfield it was in one of those small two-seaters that have flaps for doors. Read More -
02/25/20 - 10 Weeks with DOEThe expression “a cast of thousands” could be applied to the volume of applicants the Department of Energy (DOE) receives each year for internships at one of its 17 laboratories. Read More -
01/27/20 - Learning What She Didn’t KnowBefore Lihy Buchbinder ’21 arrived at UNH, she had a cultural experience that few students have: In 2014, after finishing her last two years of high school, she returned to her... Read More