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Congratulations to Elaine M. Gammon a class of 2025 undergraduate Astrophysics student of Physics & Astronomy department for being selected by Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and Dean Anna Stenport to receive the Presidential Award of Excellence!

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. 

By: Alan Flurry

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.

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.

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

By: Alan Flurry