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Four departmental awards were given to seven selected graduate students this year for exemplary research and teaching. At the end of each spring semester, the department of Physics and Astronomy hosts a catered reception to celebrate and honor our graduate students. The food and fellowship are followed by a ceremony to present the four departmental graduate awards to their recipients. Each award comes with a certificate, a monetary prize, and an…


2024 Graduate Awards

Each Spring, the department of Physics and Astronomy hosts a pizza party and award ceremony to honor and celebrate with our undergraduate majors. It's a special event to honor our students with their friends and families. This year's undergraduate awards ceremony was held on April 25, 2024. SPARK Research Award:  Elaine Gammon L.L. Hendren Memorial Scholarship:  Joshua Rothstein Wheatley Award: Giovanni Spinaci Astrophysics Award:…


2024 Undergraduate Awards

The designation is the highest undergraduate award of its type for the fields of mathematics, engineering and natural sciences University of Georgia juniors Elaine “Lainey” Gammon and Sara Logsdon are among 438 undergraduates across the nation to be recognized as Barry Goldwater Scholars in 2024, earning the highest undergraduate award of its type for the fields of mathematics, engineering and natural sciences. Gammon is from Reno, Nevada, and…


Two UGA juniors named 2024 Goldwater Scholars

With new cases, hospitalizations and mortality rates holding steady in many parts of the world, University of Georgia researchers have developed a faster detection technique for COVID-19.  In a new study published in Advanced Materials Interface, the UGA research team describes the rapid diagnostic test for SARS-CoV-2 detection and quantification directly from human nasopharyngeal swabs using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy…


Researchers unveil faster, more accurate COVID testing technique

Students from Dr. Phillip Stancil's PHYS 1312 class! Sophomores Sam Penkava (left) and Clay Reece (right) as Oppenheimer and Einstein Astrophysics/Spanish and Physics/Astrophysics majors


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A person with COVID-19 might transmit SARS-CoV-2 to domestic cats and dogs (and perhaps other pets) in the same way that an infected animal could possibly transmit it to another individual. In addition, lions, tigers, pumas, snow leopards and non-human primates from zoos or wildlife refuges in the U.S. and other countries have been confirmed infected with SARS-CoV-2, while infections have also been reported in white-tailed deer, both wild and…


UGA research team receives USDA APHIS funding for development of a rapid diagnostics platform for SARS-CoV-2

Scientists know enough about exoplanets to speculate about how simple plants might arise on them. But don't count on them being green. https://www.wired.com/story/what-will-plants-be-like-on-alien-worlds/        


What Will Plants Be Like on Alien Worlds?

AIKEN, S.C. – George Larsen and his project “Hydrogen Process Imagine Using Magnetic Fields” received this year’s Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Most Valuable Project (MVP) Award. The LDRD MVP is awarded annually and recognizes the SRNL LDRD project that generated the highest return on investment during the previous five-year period. Project selection is based on 12 objective…


Hydrogen Project Wins Savannah River National Laboratory’s Most Valuable Project Award

  Dr. Simona Hunyadi Murph, an adjunct professor at the University of Georgia and a Fellow Scientist at Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), was selected as the 2023 SRNL Inventor of the Year. This award recognizes inventors who have made significant scientific or engineering contributions that have important societal or financial impact while advancing the reputation of Battelle as a leading provider of innovative solutions to…
Simona Hunyadi Murph

Simona Hunyadi Murph
2023 SRNL Inventor of the Year Award

In its second round of funding the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative has awarded grants to support twenty-one experimental physicists. Each investigator will receive $1,250,000 over the next five years to advance the scientific frontier in experimental physics.  Supporting creative and innovative research ideas One of the aims of the initiative is to support experimental physicists who…


Advancing the scientific frontier: 2023 Experimental Physics Investigators

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