Bennett Hall houses the faculty, staff, and student offices, classrooms, and many of the departmental research laboratories. The Frontier Institute for Research in Sensor Technologies, or FIRST,(located in ESRB, the Engineering Science and Research Building) also houses some of the departmental faculty, staff, students, and research laboratories.

Entities

• Frontier Institute For Research in Sensor Technologies (FIRST)
  • Interdisciplinary research projects and technology transfer activities in the areas of surfaces and interfaces, thin films, microelectronic devices, sensor technology, and nanotechnology.
• BioPhysics Research Group
  • High Resolution Microscopy & Spectroscopy/FPALM
• Physics Education Research Laboratory

Students can choose their research topics from a wide range of theoretical or experimental areas, including, but not limited to the following:

• Astrophysics (We are not accepting any graduate students in Astrophysics currently)
• Biophysics
• Materials Physics: Nanomagnetism and Sensor Science
• Physics Education

Multidisciplinary research projects are available with faculty in the Departments of Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Biochemistry, Computer Science and Geological Sciences.

For more information, contact the Graduate Coordinator Samuel Hess um.grad.physics@maine.edu

Research Area