Department of Physics
Welcome to the U-Albany Physics Department. Our department has about a dozen faculty, 45 graduate and 140 undergraduate majors. Faculty and students in the department carry out research in a broad range of fields - from a new understanding of quantum mechanics to the search for fundamental particles to robotics and medical imaging. Fundamentally, physicists develop models for understanding how the world works. The training is a basis for a broad range of careers that rely on analytical problem solving. These fields are as diverse as cosmology, engineering, software development, and financial analysis.
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News & Announcements
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Scholarship Opportunity for Masters and Doctoral students.
The Lawrence and Marie Shore Graduate Scholarship In the Life Sciences (Application and Information Attached) Deadline: April 20, 2012.
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Albany physics is number 1!According to 2011 data released by the National Research Council, the physics department at UAlbany was #1 amongst 161 physics programs nationally in the number of published articles per faculty member, #2 in the number of doctoral graduates per faculty member and #17 in the number of citations per faculty member.
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Prof. MacDonald awarded four-year NIH $330k grant
Prof. Carolyn MacDonald has been awarded a four-year (2010-2014) NIH grant worth $330k for a project entitled "Design Studies and Optimization of Phase-Contrast Mammography".
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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
Prof. Ariel Caticha publishes new article "An Entropic Foundation for Quantum Theory" in J. Phys A
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STUDENT SUCCESS
Maggie Lovell awarded a 2011 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
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