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NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · 22h

Congratulations to Prof. Melissa Dancy, who has been honored as an 2025 APS Fellow!!
#Physics #PER

NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · 4d

Don't miss the first Science on Tap series at Lynnwood Brewing next week on Tuesday, Oct 14, from 7-9pm.

Prof. Kasey Wagoner will be talking about how scientists are making measurements that give insights into how the universe started.

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NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · 8d

Join us for the colloquium this Today from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Carl Rodriguez (@carlrodriguez.bsky.social) from UNC Chapel Hill will discuss “Growing Big Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters”. | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

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NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · 11d

Congratulations to our trainees from the Belmonte and Elting (@mwelting.bsky.social) labs
- Reem Hakeem
- Abhisha Thayambath (@abhisha-thayambath.bsky.social)
- Joe Lannan (@josephlannan.bsky.social)
for receiving all 3 best poster prizes at the last Triangle Cytoskeletal Meeting!!

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NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · 15d

Don’t miss out on the colloquium Today from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Igor Andreoni, from UNC Chapel Hill will discuss “Discovery of Energetic and Multi-messenger Transients in the Era of Rubin Observatory”. | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · Sep 8

Don’t miss out on the colloquium Today from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Matthew Green, from North Carolina State University will discuss “COHERENT Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering at the SNS”. | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

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NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · Aug 26

Join us for an extra colloquium this Wednesday from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Andrey Tarasov from North Carolina State University will discuss “Factorization and perturbative QCD in the era of Electron-Ion Collider”. | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

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NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · Aug 25

Don’t miss out on the colloquium this Monday from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Julio Belmonte, from North Carolina State University will discuss “Mesoscale Computational Biophysics: From Cytoskeletal Percolation to Tissue Mechanics”. | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/colloq...

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NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · Aug 22

his Monday we recognized the excellent work of two of our students with the Russel Philbrick Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant or Teaching Assistant.
-Christian Trasher for his dedication and leadership in PY131
-Mustafa Ture for his discovery of solitonic superfluorescence at room temperature

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NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · Aug 18

Happy #FDOC, #Wolfpack! We’re wishing all new and returning students the best of luck in their physics classes this semester!

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NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · Jul 24

🎉 Congratulations to Eduardo Castellanos — selected as a 2025–26 Graduate Research Fellow by NC Space Grant
! 🚀 His project explores the rheology of proton-rich astrophysical gas — pushing the frontiers of space science. 🌌🧪

🔗 ncspacegrant.ncsu.edu/2025/07/15/n...

North Carolina Space Grant Selects 2025-2026 Graduate Research Fellows

North Carolina Space Grant congratulates its 2025-2026 graduate research fellows. Twenty two graduate students will conduct science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) research to benefit NASA, c...

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NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · Jul 9

🧊✨ Galactic mystery unlocked!!
Astronomers have figured out how icy gas clouds—like cosmic "ice cubes"—survive the scorching outflows from the Milky Way’s center.
Amazing work from the Bordoloi group!🔭
🔗 tinyurl.com/musam7dw
#MilkyWay #GalacticCenter #Astrophysics

Galactic Mystery: How “Ice Cubes” Survive in the Milky Way’s Blazing Bubbles - National Radio Astronomy Observatory

A team of astronomers has made a surprising discovery using the U.S. National Science Foundation Green Bank Telescope (NSF...

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NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · May 28

⚛️ 🧪 Major discovery from Gundogdu’s Lab!
Postdoc Melike Biliroglu and PhD student Mustafa Türe, working with an international team, demonstrate solitonic superfluorescence in hybrid perovskites at room temp—paving the way for scalable, high-temp quantum tech.
🔗 tinyurl.com/5cxs6ypp

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NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · Apr 21

Join us today for our annual McCormick Symposium, which highlights the achievements of the undergraduate physics students.
3pm - Poster session at Riddick Hearth
4pm - Award ceremony at RD 325

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NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · Apr 15

Congratulations to undergraduate alumna Logan White for being awarded the #NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program!!
The award supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees.

NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · Apr 7

Don’t miss out on the colloquium next Monday from 4-5pm in Riddick 301!! Dr. Geraldine Cochran, from Ohio State University, will discuss “Rethinking What it Means to be Underprepared in Physics”. | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/colloq...

NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · Mar 26

Today is NC State Day of Giving!! #GivingPack

Your donation to the Physics Department Enhancement Fund will go towards supporting our faculty and students as we offer extraordinary opportunities in physics education and research.

Make a donation at:
go.ncsu.edu/dayofgiving.physics

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NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · Mar 19

Check this late-breaking talk by postdoc Carmen Lee from ‪@karenedaniels.bsky.social‬ lab at the APS Global Physics Summit!

Karen Daniels @karenedaniels.bsky.social · Mar 16

The "DSOFT Gallery of Soft Matter" has a late-breaking talk by @ncstatephysics.bsky.social postdoc Carmen Lee, on what the stress-force-fabric relation tells us about granular materials with different loading histories. Video preview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7UV...

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YouTube video by DanielsLab

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NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · Feb 27

Congratulations to physics undergraduate Josh Ott for being selected a 2024 Astronaut Scholar!! These merit-based scholarships are given to exceptional STEM students who intend to continue pursuing research and advance their field after graduation.
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Sciences Student Josh Ott Presented With Astronaut Scholar Award

The scholarship is among the largest merit-based monetary scholarships awarded to STEM students.

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NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · Feb 10

Today we will host a joint colloquium with the department of mathematics. Join us at 4:14 in SAS 1102 to hear Dr. Mason Porter from UCLA talk about “Quantum Networks”. More info:
math.sciences.ncsu.edu/2025/02/04/c...

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NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · Jan 31

Join us for the colloquium this Monday from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Mariangela Lisanti from Princeton University will discuss "Galaxies as Probes of the Particle Physics Nature of Dark Matter"! | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

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NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · Jan 21

Join us for the special colloquium this Wednesday from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Ruediger Picker, from TRIUMF (@triumflab.bsky.social), will discuss “Progress towards the TRIUMF ultracold neutron facility and neutron electric dipole moment experiment”.

NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · Jan 9

Congratulations to Aaron Titus for being chosen as one of the 2 college's nominees for the Outstanding Teacher Award. More info: provost.ncsu.edu/ofe/awards-a...

Outstanding Teacher Award

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NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · Jan 4

Join us for the first colloquium of the year this Monday from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Shengwang Du, from Purdue University, will discuss “Distributed Quantum Computing with Shared Quantum Gate Processing Unit”. | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

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NC State Physics @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · Dec 19

Join us tonight at 7pm to learn more about the recent Nobel Prize in Physics!! Dr. Xipeng Shen will talk about how scientists combined physics and computation to revolutionize #ArtificialInteligence. This free event for the general public will consist of lecture followed by Q&A from the audience.