Category: physics

“Prevention is better than the cure,” says Dr. David Lary, a professor of Physics at the Hanson Center for Space Science at The University of Texas at Dallas and the Founding Director of MINTS (Multi-Scale Integrated Intelligent Interactive Sensing). With over three decades of experience tackling societal challenges through science, Dr. Lary is now addressing […]

UTD’s School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics is in the process of expanding its course offerings in bioinformatics and structural biology toward computational systems biology. This new and exciting, highly interdisciplinary field draws from: While systems biology is still a young field, it is increasingly and forcefully moving toward the mainstream of biomedical sciences and […]

Dr. Yvette E. Pearson, a globally-recognized leader in STEM education and research, is now an associate dean in the University’s School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) and Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science (Jonsson School). For NSM Pearson is associate dean for academic affairs and strategic initiatives and for the Jonsson School she is associate dean […]

By Carly OrewilerMarch 4, 2024 University of Texas at Dallas Society of Physics Students (SPS) president Alison Spadaro is set to deliver remarks at the March 6 Sciences Building dedication ceremony, alongside several campus leaders including UT Dallas President Richard C. Benson. The 186,000-square-foot Sciences Building is one of the newest structures on the UT […]

By Carly OrewilerMarch 1, 2024 Although Noor Malik loved science, mastering Newton’s laws of motion was low on her summer bucket list. It was 2018, only a couple months before she started high school, and she wasn’t particularly excited about spending a week of her break back in school. At a physics camp, of all […]

by Caryn Berardi Air pollution lingers as a mostly invisible threat, silently weaving its way into our lives and negatively impacting our health. But what if we could actually see the composition of the air we breathe? A team of University of Texas at Dallas researchers, led by physics professor Dr. David Lary, recently installed […]

by Eric Butterman For decades, Phillip Anderson MS’85, PhD’90, physics professor and director of the William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, has had a dream to unravel the mysteries of the ionosphere-thermosphere. Even as a UT Dallas graduate student in the ‘80s working with Dr. Hanson, Anderson knew understanding the upper layers of Earth’s […]

by Caryn Berardi and Carly Orewiler A University of Texas at Dallas scientist who studies 2D materials and intelligent chips recently published a review article in Science highlighting an emerging field that he has been pioneering — geometric deep optical sensing — an innovative scheme that could revolutionize the way we capture, process and utilize […]

by Caryn Berardi Dr. Xiaoyan Shi is busy shaping the next generation of technology and science innovators — by day, as a professor and researcher, and in his spare time, as a robotics mentor in the local community. Shi is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics. His research lab, known as the Quantum […]

Physics Society Receives 10th Consecutive National Distinction by Caryn Berardi The UT Dallas chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) was recently recognized as a Distinguished Chapter by the SPS national organization. This is UT Dallas SPS’ 10th consecutive chapter distinction and one of its 22 national awards and recognitions over the last decade, […]

Physics Alum on Mission to Send Night Vision Technology to Ukraine by Caryn Berardi In 1992, Dr. Joseph Estrera graduated from UT Dallas with his master’s and PhD in physics. In 2023, he is in the process of sending more than one thousand of his company’s image intensifier night vision products overseas to aid the […]

On Nov. 26, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ferrying supplies to the International Space Station also carried a small satellite containing a scientific instrument built by researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas. The CubeSat nanosatellite – rectangular and about the size of two loaves of bread – is part of the CubeSat Launch […]

In a letter dated September 19, AAAS fellow and UT Dallas physics Professor Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki was informed that he had been chosen to receive the 2022 UT System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award. “This award reflects the high regard your peers have for your qualities as a member of the faculty, and it gives us all great satisfaction to […]

The precise details of some specific steps needed to initiate DNA replication have remained beyond researchers’ grasp. But now a UT Dallas graduate student, Madison Berger, and her supervisor, NS&M Professor G. Andrés Cisneros, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Sussex, have used quantum mechanical principles to help successfully uncover the initiation sequence […]

The late Professor Emeritus Ivor Robinson was founding head of the Division of Mathematics and Mathematical Physics at The University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Robinson was among the first members recruited in 1963 to the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest (GRCSW), the private research organization that in 1969 became The University of Texas […]

Dr. David Lary, professor of physics in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics,  recently was featured in The Dallas Morning News discussing his work using remote-controlled machines to clean up environments, assess drinking water quality, and otherwise investigate spills on land, sea, and air. For the past decade he and his research team have developed protocols following a toxic […]

by Haywood McNeill The good news is physicists say the Universe is expanding. And they say it is expanding at an accelerating rate. The bad news is they are not sure why the acceleration is happening. The puzzle has placed the work of 20th century genius Albert Einstein front and center. That the Universe is expanding contradicts […]

Sir Roger Penrose, the British scholar who won half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity,” gave a transatlantic talk over Zoom on Sept. 2, 2021, titled, “Spinors, Space-Time, and Working with Wolfgang Rindler.”  The Nobel laureate and the late UT Dallas physics […]

Peter Niedbalski, PhD’17, received his doctorate in physics from The University of Texas at Dallas. During his time at UT Dallas, he studied dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) under physics Associate Professor Lloyd Lumata. Following his graduation, Peter accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center to perform pulmonary imaging research. Building on the […]

Astrophysicist and associate professor of physics Dr. Michael Kesden recently was elected vice chair of the Texas Section of the American Physical Society (APS), a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing and spreading physics knowledge. The election to the vice chair post puts Kesden in line next to be chair-elect, then chairman and finally past chair […]

The Green Fellows program, offered jointly by The University of Texas at Dallas and the UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, provides a semester-long, fully paid undergraduate research fellowship. The program is most appropriate for those students interested in PhD or MD/PhD pathways after graduation from UT Dallas. This week, from 2-4 pm Thursday, May […]

Undergraduate students in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics will continue their educational pursuits this summer while gaining valuable hands-on research experience. The Department of Geosciences provides opportunities for field course work at geological sites in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico in two, 3-credit courses: Introductory Field Geology (GEOS 3300) and Advanced Field Geology (GEOS 4300). […]

Warren Gould, former director of Development and Alumni Affairs in the early years of UT Dallas, recently announced the establishment of an endowment. According to documents, The Jack Mize, PhD, Professorship Endowment in Natural Sciences and Mathematics is a $100,000 permanent endowment for the school to support research-enhancing activities of the professorship holder. “My son […]

Instead of arrows, Cupid delivered a very cold shot of air Valentine’s Day 2021, which may go down as one of the coldest in history. A polar vortex (a large area of low pressure and cold air surrounding both of the Earth’s poles) arrived, plunging Texas temperatures that day from a high of 22 degrees […]

Following a national search, Dr. David Hyndman has been hired and takes the helm as dean of the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics effective Feb. 1.  Dr. Hyndman’s research and service are known internationally. His group’s research on hydrogeology evaluates human impacts on the water cycle through changes in climate and land use. Dr. […]

Dr. Jason Slinker, associate professor of physics in the UT Dallas School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, acquired a cryogenic probe station via an instrument award from the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) through the Office of Naval Research. Slinker received the award in February 2020, and the equipment was purchased and installed over […]

By Melissa Graham With the construction of the Sciences Building, UT Dallas received a $370,000 gift-in-kind from Laboratory Builders Inc., a design and build firm specializing in laboratory furnishings and lab construction. The firm donated top-of-the-line equipment to outfit the building’s lab spaces, which will be used by students studying molecular and cell biology, materials […]

From a field of 96, the UTD Society of Physics Students won 2020’s Outstanding Chapter Award, the third consecutive year for them to win that distinction.  “We’ve won chapter distinctions eight years in a row, and the last three of those consecutively have been at the highest level,” said Dr. Jason Slinker, associate professor of […]