Physics
Neutron 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 objects in the universe. The composition of their interior holds clues to the expansion of the universe and the creation of black holes. Ph.D.... Read More
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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... -
10/14/22Understanding the Nucleus, and Everything
Karl Slifer, professor of physics. PHoto by Sydney Stapes. Though the science is aimed at matter not seen by the naked eye, the research of UNH’s...
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05/20/15 - A (Nuclear) Force To Be Reckoned WithUNH physicist Patricia Solvignon has received a prestigious Early Career Research Program grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. Solvignon, an assistant professor of physics,... Read More -
04/29/15 - Grad Students Receive Prestigious NSF FellowshipsThree UNH students have received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, one of the nation’s premier national science, math, engineering and technology (STEM)... Read More -
03/05/15 - Space QuartetTen years ago, UNH physics professor Roy Torbert knew that when the university’s Space Science Center (SSC) was awarded a very large role in NASA’s ambitious, four-spacecraft... Read More -
07/31/14 - Scientific SojournThey found it at the edge of a Maine forest near a cornfield off a path called Potato Road. A distinctive orange hull, intact. Before it fell to the ground, it traveled along the... Read More -
04/17/14 - Goldwater HonorsTimothy Marquis '15 For the first time ever, three UNH students — all New Hampshire residents — have been awarded the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. The Goldwater... Read More -
08/08/13 - Smart Students Study Cutting-edge Science with Project SmartIn the crowded atrium of Morse Hall, large posters mounted on easels described cutting-edge science ranging from genetically engineered plants to 3-D bio-printing to an ultra-low... Read More -
07/25/13 - Heavenly Science: Student Balloons Video Earth Below, Space AboveOn Thursday, July 17, 2013, high school students and their University of New Hampshire Project SMART mentors successfully flew twin weather balloons that carried... Read More -
05/02/13 - Big Things Have Small BeginningsStudents from UNH and Yeshiva University convene at Brookhaven National Laboratory to study the role of nanocatalysts in the creation of green energy. Read More
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