About
We are a growing, internationally recognized department with strong research and academic programs. Our well-published faculty members lead research projects funded by the federal government and industry.
How You Will Learn
Our faculty utilize a combination of active learning, Socratic method, and hands-on learning techniques to fully engage students in their physics education. Professors offer research opportunities in their federally and industry funded labs.
Programs
Physics PhD/ Graduate Program
Dr. Neepa Maitra Joins Physics Department at Rutgers Newark
Theoretical Physicist, Dr. Neepa Maitra, will join the Physics Department at Rutgers Newark Fall 2019
Dr. Maitra is a world-reknowned expert in electronic structure theory and dynamics, and her lab is already accepting students!
Undergradate
Physics Program
Message from the Chair
Welcome.
We are a cohort of proud scientists with one goal in mind: developing the next best idea in physics while having as much fun as we can.
If you are considering joining our department as a Graduate Student (PhD or Masters), please do not hesitate to contact me at m.pavanello@rutgers.edu or a particular faculty member whose research projects interest you. If you wish to visit us, we offer paid summer internships to prospective students (graduate and undergraduate).
Rutgers-Newark is the most diverse campus in the USA, and as such we celebrate diversity, including scientific diversity. If you are considering a multidisciplinary project involving, for example, Physics and Materials Science or Physics and Math, you are looking in the right department!
Student Co-Curricular Work
Learning Assistant Program at RU-N, Fall 2018
Top undergraduates in STEM work in the courses they have successfully completed. Learning Assistant have special status among science and math majors. To apply contact Caryn Sarnicki.
Research News
Dr. Claudiu Stan Publishes in Nature Communications.
Dr. Claudiu Stan and his collaborators made consecutive crystal diffraction measurements in less than a millionth of a second, using the world’s most advanced X-ray laser in Germany.
Contact
Smith Hall Room 212
101 Warren St.
Newark, NJ 07102
United States
Faculty
Mohammad Qasem
Part-Time Lecturer
Grace Spruch
Professor Emeritus
Tatiana Morozova
Part-Time Lecturer
Michele Pavanello
Associate Professor