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Dr. Craig Wiegert with our Undergraduate Majors.

2024 Undergraduate 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.


Two UGA juniors named 2024 Goldwater Scholars

The designation is the highest undergraduate award of its type for the fields of mathematics, engineering and natural sciences


Researchers unveil faster, more accurate COVID testing technique

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. 


J. Hom et al. (2024, MNRAS, 528, 6959), "A uniform analysis of debris discs with the Gemini Planet Imager II: constraints on dust density distribution using empirically informed scattering phase functions

J. Hom et al.


Lee & Song, 2024, ApJ, V967, 113, "Kinematic Age of the β-Pictoris Moving Group

Lee & Song, 2024, ApJ, V967, 113, "Kinematic Age of the β-Pictoris Moving Group

 


Halloween photos

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

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

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.


What Will Plants Be Like on Alien Worlds?

Scientists know enough about exoplanets to speculate about how simple plants might arise on them. But don't count on them being green.


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

2023 SRNL Inventor of the Year Award

2023 SRNL Inventor of the Year Award