Undergraduate Programs

Contact Information

For questions and problems concerning registering for physics courses, please send email to Ms. Stacey Jacobs, the Undergraduate Secretary. To request a special permission number, see the special permission request form.

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 2012, announced at the SPS Departmental Awards Banquet on April 17, 2012.
• Physics major graduates at Commencement on May 13, 2012.
• 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 Paul L. Leath Award
• 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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