Undergraduate Programs

Contact Information

For questions and problems concerning registering for physics courses, please send email to Ms. Stacey Jacobs, the Undergraduate Secretary. Include your RUID, course name AND course number, section numbers, and the nature of your question or problem. Be sure to provide section numbers, not index numbers.

For questions about physics/astrophysics major programs, advice on course selections, and evaluations of courses taken at other universities, send email to the Undergraduate Program Director Prof. Mohan Kalelkar.

Courses, Major and Minor Programs

• START HERE:Course catalog, major and minor requirements, course descriptions
• The Major in Physics
• The Major in Astrophysics
• Home pages of undergraduate courses
• Instruction support and development
• Careers in Physics and Astronomy
• Learning Outcome Goals

Our Physics Majors

• Departmental Award Winners in 2011, announced at the SPS Departmental Awards Banquet on April 26, 2011.
• The Rutgers Society of Physics Students (SPS)
• Group photograph of physics majors, taken on Sep. 18, 2000
• List of Physics Majors

Scholarships for Physics Majors

The Department awards merit-based, essentially full-tuition scholarships to seven undergraduate physics majors every year.

• The Mary Wheeler Wigner Memorial Scholarship
• The Robert L. Sells Scholarships
• The Herman Y. Carr Scholarships
• The Noemie B. Koller Scholarships
• STEM for Education Scholarship Program

Prizes and Internships for Physics Majors

• The Richard T. Weidner Physics Prize
• The Richard J. Plano Summer Research Internships
• The Summer Research Internship Award in Experimental High Energy Physics

Teaching Awards

• The Outstanding Teacher Award, presented annually by the Rutgers Society of Physics Students.
• The Richard J. Plano Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award , inaugurated in 2000.
• The previous Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award , which existed during 1989-1999.

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This page is maintained by Prof. Mohan Kalelkar.
Updated August 28, 2011