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Welcome to the Physics Department, one of the strongest
on the UWM campus. Feel free to browse this site to learn
about the exciting work being done here. We welcome
undergraduates to register as physics majors. Please
contact one of our Undergraduate Advisors listed under
Contact Info if you are interested to do so. Due to a
relatively high faculty-to-student ratio, students receive all
the benefits of close contact, both social and
professional, with faculty.
We also welcome students to apply for graduate studies
leading to MS
and PhD degrees. Details on application procedures may be
found in
these web pages. This web site describes the department's
world-class
research programs in areas such as gravitational physics,
surface
physics, condensed matter physics, laser optics, and
biophysics.
Members of the department receive major federal
research funding from the National Science Foundation
(NSF), the U.S.Department
of Energy (DOE), the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), and the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA), amongst other sources.
During 2006-2007, the Department brought in
over $5 million
in extramural research funding (approximately 16% of the
University's
total). Consequently, almost all our graduate students
receive stipends
as either teaching or research assistants or in the form of
fellowships
that allow them to be entirely self-supporting.
More information about the
department
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