Received over $6.5 million dollars in externally funded research grants in FY2000-2003.
Professor C. Thomas Hess – winner of the 1999 Presidential Research and Creative Achievement Award.
Professor Neil Comins – coauthor of the world’s leading introductory astronomy textbook.
Professor William Unertl – winner of the 1993 Presidential Research and Creative Achievement Award.
Professor R. Dean Astumian – selected as a fellow in the American Physics Society.
Professor Charles Smith – winner of the 1978 University Distinguished Professor Award
One of a dozen U.S. physics departments offering a Ph.D. in Physics specializing in physics education research.
Recently awarded (with Chemistry, Mathematics Education) a $1.2 million appropriation for A Model Program to Enhance Science and Mathematics Education.
Ph.D. recipients (2000-2002) are now serving as research fellows or faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, Franklin and Marshall College, and the University of Arizona.
First Engineering Physics program to be accredited in the United States of America.
