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Department Office
Optics Building
Room 201 B
Huntsville AL 35899
Tel: 256-824-2483
At a Glance
The Department of Physics at The University of Alabama in Huntsville has 25 faculty members,
and offers BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Physics, as well as an MS degree in Optics and Photonics Technology.
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Research Specializations
The Department focus on research in the three major areas of astrophysics, space physics, and optics.
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UAH Physics Announcements
Announcements and News from the UAH Department of Physics. |
| 06/30/2008 Distinguished Professor Dr. Richard Lieu has been named Distinguished Professor by the University of Alabama Board of Trustees at their June meeting. |
| 03/31/2008 U.S. News & World Report Ranking places the UAH Department of Physics in the top 100 graduate programs in physics nationwide. Click on the link to see the list or search for other programs. |
| 03/31/2008 Goldwater Scholar Physics major Danielle Nuding has just been awarded a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship! Ms. Nuding is a physics major specializing in atmospheric science. |
| 03/24/2008 Outstanding GTA Stanford El-Nemr has been awarded the College of Science Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for the 07-08 AY. |
| 02/14/2008 Chan Chair of Physics Gary Zank is the next Pei-Ling Chan Chair of Physics, and this marks the beginning of a major expansion of the Department in the area of space physics. Six additional tenure-track positions will be filled in the next academic year. Dr. Zank will also serve as CSPAR Director, and comes to UAH at the end of this semester. |
| 02/04/2008 AGU Outstanding Student Paper Graduate student Phillip Bitzer received the Outstanding Student Paper Award for his presentation at the 2007 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco. His paper on atmospheric lightening was recognized as among the best of a strong group of student presenters. |
