• Majors from Grand Valley State University should consult with their faculty advisors or the department chair at the earliest opportunity for degree planning. 
  • Our active, enthusiastic, caring, and dedicated faculty members are engaged in excellent teaching, scholarly activities, and service.
    • Our faculty members actively pursue academic research projects with the students. Research interests of our faculty members include acoustics, astronomy, atomic physics, condensed matter physics, physics education, gravitation, cosmology, nuclear physics, and medical physics.
    • All classrooms are well equipped with video and audio systems. Smaller size upper division physics classes provide personal attention from our outstanding faculty.
    • Our faculty and students participate in a variety of physics outreach activities throughout the year to promote science education in Michigan and especially to create an interest in physics among high school students.
    • Career Options
    • Physicists are often employed in:
    • Education
    • Government
    • Industry
    • Research