The Department of Physics and Astronomy conducts forefront research in a variety of areas in contemporary physics. Research expenditures exceed $8 million annually. Additionally, faculty from the department play a leadership role in several interdisciplinary centers and institutions. The faculty consists of 29 professors with Physics and Astronomy as their home department, 17 professors who hold secondary appointments in the department, and 31 research faculty and associates.

Astronomy Atomic, Molecular and Applied Optical Physics Biological Physics / Biophysics Condensed Matter / Materials / Nano Physics Nuclear Physics Particles, Fields, and Cosmology Health Physics   (Interdisiplinary) Medical Physics   (Interdisiplinary)

On Campus 300kV Accelerator Lab Arthur J. Dyer Observatory Astronomy Lab Observatory Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectrometer Keck Foundation Free-Electron Laser VINSE Core Laboratories Paramagnetic Resonance Spectrometer Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopes Ultrafast Tunable Lasers Physics Analysis Cluster  Off Campus Brookhaven National Laboratory,      PHENIX at RHIC CHESS(Cornell) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory:      E687, FOCUS and BTeV Marshall Space Flight Center Oak Ridge National Laboratory SLAC(Stanford), SLD SMARTS Telescopes (Chile)