Physics and Astronomy

Laatsch discusses possible meteorite with Machias Valley News Observer

Lucy Slattery and other Physics students worked with students at Bath STEM Night   https://www.wmtw.com/article/hands-on-stem-night-in-bath-drives-students-to-technology-and-science/43535210#

Congratulations to graduating senior Kell Fremouw! He was named 1 of 12 Outstanding Graduating Seniors. The full Q&A can be read here. For more information on Kell’s research and experience as an Engineering Physics student at the University of Maine, watch this short feature on Kell.      

Thirty-one faculty members receive tenure and/or promotion

Yu receives NSF Early CAREER award for solid-solid phase transition research

UMaine researchers developing new wireless sensors for nuclear facilities 

UMaine collaborates on study to explain theory behind electrically driven molecular motors

We are excited to host Dr. Henning Haack from the Maine Mineral & Gem Museum for a colloquium! Henning Haack received his PhD in Geophysics from the University of Copenhagen, and did postdoc work at the Planetary Geosciences division at the University of Hawaii and at the Institute of Physics in Odense.  He has served […]

We’re excited to have Brady in our department. He’s starting with 64 credits this fall, enough to enter as a Junior! For more information, check out the full article here.

Dr. MacKenzie Stetzer (Physics and Astronomy) and Dr. Mitchell Bruce (Chemistry) and collaborating PIs and co-PIs from North Dakota State University, Penn State Greater Allegheny, and the University of North Florida have received a five-year, $2M award from the National Science Foundation entitled “Developing, testing, and disseminating reasoning chain construction tools for use in physics […]