Established | 1934 |
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Chair | Gemunu Gunaratne |
Academic staff
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31 tenure(d) + 16 research |
Administrative staff
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13 |
Undergraduates | 60 |
Postgraduates | 8 |
90 | |
Location | Houston, Texas, United States |
Associate Director | Jennifer Chin-Davis |
Website | phys.uh.edu |
Coordinates: 29°43′22″N 95°20′42″W / 29.722765425583646°N 95.34497757366276°W
The Department of Physics at the is a department of the University of Houston College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics performing research traditional fields such as High Energy Physics and Condensed Matter Physics, Material Science, and Biological Physics, but also topics like Seismic and Medical Imaging. With its physics program, the UH physics department placed 60 (out of 160) in the 2010 United States National Research Council rankings. The Department works together closely with the Texas Center for Superconductivity.
More specifically, the research at the 's Department of Physics can be structured as
The department offers the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in physics, possibly with a geophysics specialization, and Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in physics. In near future there will also be a B.S. in computational physics.