• It is designed to strengthen the student's background and experience in physics, and enhance the opportunities for employment as a physicist or in physics education.
  • The research program in physics is unusually broad in scope with active experimental and theoretical research programs in astrophysics; atomic, molecular, and optical physics; biophysics; condensed matter physics; elementary particle physics; nuclear physics; particle physics theory; phenomenology; and plasma physics.
  • This broad range of research opportunities makes the department especially attractive to beginning students who have not yet chosen a field of specialization.
  • The Research named option is offered for work leading to the Ph.D. Students may not apply directly for the master’s.