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The Department of Physics at VCU is committed to
providing quality education in teaching and research and offers both a B.S. degree in
Physics and an M.S. degree in Physics and Applied Physics with specializations in
instrumentation, materials physics, and physics research. The Physics BS degree may be
combined with a BS degree from the new VCU School of Engineering by taking a double major.
The Department also collaborates with the Chemistry Department in a Ph.D.
program in Chemical Physics in which students may perform research toward a degree under
the supervision of a member of the Physics faculty.
Major research efforts in the department have
brought visitors from Argentina, Brazil, China, Japan, India, Switzerland, France, Mexico,
Finland, Russia, and Canada which lends excitement to departmental activities. There are
eight full-time faculty members plus post doctoral fellows who contribute to research
programs in condensed matter physics, materials science, biophysics, polymer physics,
atomic and molecular physics, quantum chemistry, and general relativity.
Research is currently funded by grants from the
National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Army Research Office, the Center for
Innovative Technology, and Research Corporation.
The department maintains a very active colloquium
program which brings distinguished speakers to the university on a weekly basis. The
Physics Department has organized and hosted four major international conferences in
Richmond in the past 15 years.
The student body in the Physics Department in
addition to those from the United States has included students from India, Pakistan,
China, Iraq, Russia, and the Caribbean. Classes are generally small and all are taught not
by graduate students but by highly qualified faculty members, which gives students the
opportunity to interact with faculty on a personal level. This interaction is encouraged
and graduate, as well as undergraduate students, often work side-by-side with faculty in a
variety of research areas.
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