Department of Physics at UC Santa Cruz

THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AT UCSC offers students an outstanding academic experience. A national survey ranked the overall satisfaction with the physics graduate program at UCSC the highest in the nation. [More]

In a report by the Institute for Scientific Information, UCSC Physics' professional papers had the highest citation rate of any university physics department in the country. With our close connection to the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) and scientific associations with Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) at Stanford, the UC Observatories, and various x-ray and neutron scattering centers at national laboratories we continue to provide exceptional research opportunities to our students.

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UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 2010-2011 [More]

30 Grads in 30 Days: Nina McCurdy [More]

Fermi Featured on Cover of Science Magazine [More]

The new High Performance AstroComputing Center (HIPACC) will focus on computational astrophysics—using the growing power of supercomputers to address the most difficult problems in astrophysics and cosmology. [More]

New Major in Physics Education Approved [More]

Humboldt Research Award for Professor Howard Haber [More]

Adriane Steinacker (Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics) and David Belanger (Department of Physics) have received a five year grant of $600,000 from the National Science Foundation [More]

Steve Ritz (Physics and SCIPP) and Claire Max (Astronomy and Astrophysics), have been named to the National Academies committee on Astro2010 [More]

Physicists Sriram Shastry and Peter Young honored by American Physical Society [More]

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211 Interdisciplinary Sciences Building
University of California
1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064

Phone: 831-459-3744
Fax: 831-459-3043
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