August 5, 2020
Space Physicist Jens Oberheide is co-author on a study selected as a research highlight by the American Geophysical Union. The Global-Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) instrument is the first NASA/ComSat owner-operator partnership for delivering a science payload into a geostationary orbit. GOLD’s unique observing geometry mitigates the decade-old problem of low Earth […]
August 5, 2020
Dr. Jian He of the Department of Physics & Astronomy Clemson is a corresponding author of a Science article describing a new van der Waals inorganic semiconductor. The van der Waals inorganic semiconductors are generally brittle and prone to cleavage in its bulk form at room temperature. However, an international team of scientists found that this […]
August 5, 2020
Graduate Student, Rafael Mesquita, led a team that measured the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) as a part of a rocket launch campaign in 2018, out of the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska. Over the years, folks have observed an increased concentration of nitrogen in the thermosphere (above 100 km and usually oxygen heavy) and atomic oxygen […]
July 30, 2020
As the pandemic continues to spread and keep our economy at a standstill, one Clemson researcher is hard at work to create a faster COVID-19 test. With funding from an NSF Rapid grant, Dr. Ding is working on a way to provide test results in 15 minutes. Such a test will enable near real-time testing […]
July 13, 2020
Please join me in congratulating the Medical Physics group for placing 2nd place in the Summer COVID Challenge. The COVID Challenge was a competition for undergraduate students and their mentors across all disciplines to create a video pitch for any research, product, or service that addresses one of the many issues we’re dealing with due […]
April 18, 2020
It has been quite a spring semester. I’d like to thank all of our faculty and GTAs for their excellent efforts at moving our courses online! This has been a Herculean effort, and I’m sure that our students appreciate all you have done for them. In the midst of all of the bad news we […]
October 3, 2019
Clemson’s Physics and Astronomy department would love to welcome you back to campus! We are having events to connect PandA alumni with current graduate and undergraduate students! If you are interested in attending events for Clemson’s Physics & Astronomy Alumni Week (Oct 24-Oct 26), please use this Google form to RSVP. We hope to see […]
October 3, 2019
Rama Podila has been recognized by the Clemson Young Alumni association with the Roaring 10 Award. Each year, the Clemson Young Alumni Council recognizes ten outstanding individuals for their impact in business, leadership, community, educational and/or philanthropic endeavors. The honor is given to those individuals who exemplify Clemson University’s core values of honesty, integrity, and respect. Rama is […]
September 4, 2019
As football starts up this season, the Physics & Astronomy Graduate Student Organization would like to show school pride and spirit with a tailgate cookout! We will be hosting a Tailgate Cookout! with lots of food and fun and friends and even maybe a little football. Where: Right outside the first floor of Kinard, next to the pendulum\parking […]
August 25, 2019
Professor Ding as published a paper in Nature titled “Inhibition of amyloid beta toxicity in zebrafish with a chaperone-gold nanoparticle dual strategy”. They describe the use of casein coated-gold nanoparticles to eliminate the toxicity of amyloid beta in a zebra fish. Amyloid beta is associated with various neurodegenerative disorders in humans such as Alzheimer’s disease. Please join […]
