Exploring nature from cosmic to quantum

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.

  • Degrees Offered BA, BS, BA/MA, PhD
  • Major Physics
  • Minor Physics, Space Science and Engineering

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PhD Program

Graduate students have flexibility in choosing their course of research and designing their path through the program.

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Undergraduate

Whether your interest is in astronomy, condensed matter, particle physics, or plasma spectroscopy, you'll find state-of-the-art tools at your disposal.

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Award-winning Faculty

Students have the opportunity to work with experts in a wide range of fields, even as undergraduates.

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Department-wide colloquium: Eric Cornell (JILA)

Title: Precision measurements are having a moment:  recent results in leptons and why they matter, Abstract:  The past three years have seen three dipole-moment measurements of record-breaking accuracy – the magnetic […]

Black hole coffee

Black (hole) Coffee is a space for students, postdocs, and professors to discuss cutting-edge research on all things black holes, spanning both observations and theory.

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Bingjie Wang (PhD ’21) Receives Hubble Fellowship

Bingjie Wang, who earned her PhD in the department working with Tim Heckman, has received a NASA Hubble Fellowship which supports promising postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research which contributes to NASA Astrophysics. As a Hubble Fellow, Bingjie will explore the nature of extremely compact red sources and the stochasticity in star formation rate.