- The UConn Physics Department has a vibrant research program, with 29 full-time faculty, as well as joint faculty in affiliated departments and organizations, such as Brookhaven National Lab (BNL), Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab), Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (ITAMP) at Harvard, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and UConn's own Health Center and Institute of Materials Science.
- Our distinguished faculty includes eight Fellows of the American Physical Society, two Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and one Fellow of the Institute of Physics (London). Recent junior faculty have won three National Science Foundation's (NSF) CAREER awards, one NSF Young Investigator award, and one DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator award.
- The graduate program provides research opportunities in numerous fields including atomic and molecular physics, quantum optics, laser physics, nuclear and high energy physics, condensed matter physics, polymer physics, and geophysics.