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Dr. Craig Wiegert with our Undergraduate Majors.

2025 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. 


A Late-Stage Infall Renovation: Mapping the Circumstellar Disk of AB Aurigae


UGA's Hall named National Geographic Explorer

By: Alan Flurry


Feature in the New York Times

There might be more than one way to form a planet” from the New York Times. Prof. Cassandra Hall’s recent discovery about the observational signature of a planet formation mechanism called gravitational instability, published recently in Nature, has been featured in the New York Times.


UGA student wins Radiolab contest to name one of Earth's quasi-moons

Look to the sky – and ask Bulldog nation for support – and one of Earth's quasi-moons gets a cool new name, thanks to UGA student Clay Chilcutt.


Two UGA students finalists in Radiolab contest to name one of Earth's quasi-moons

Though they might not be seen, they can be named – voting is open through Dec.


UGA's Dorsey selected to receive Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship

By: Alan Flurry


2024 GRADUATE SCHOOL ALUMNI OF DISTINCTION AWARDS


New research challenges long-standing paradigm on planet formation

By: Alan Flurry

Four departmental awards were given to seven selected graduate students this year for exemplary research and teaching.

2024 Graduate Awards

Four departmental awards were given to seven selected graduate students this year for exemplary research and teaching.