With its world-renowned faculty and state-of-the-art facilities, the William H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy combines the best aspects of a top research university with the more intimate learning environment typical of small liberal arts colleges.
Graduate students have flexibility in choosing their course of research and designing their path through the program.
Whether your interest is in astronomy, condensed matter, particle physics, or plasma spectroscopy, you'll find state-of-the-art tools at your disposal.
Students have the opportunity to work with experts in a wide range of fields, even as undergraduates.
The Off-Axis Far-Ultraviolet Off Rowland-circle Telescope for Imaging and Spectroscopy (OAxFORTIS) sounding rocket mission successfully launched and collected data late Sunday night (22:00 hours MDT 25 August 2024) over White Sand […]
Professor Brice Ménard has been appointed as one of seven new external professors at the Santa Fe Institute in 2024. Santa Fe Institute is the world's leading research center for complex systems science. As an external professor, Ménard will help to enrich their networks of interactions, push the boundaries of complex systems science, and connect...
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Marc Kamionkowski has been invited to present the Heinrich Hertz Lecture on Physics at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron on September 26. The title of Kamionkowski's lecture is "Consensus and confusion in cosmology."