Welcome to the Physics Department!

The Department consists of 7 full time faculty, 6 adjunct faculty, 80 undergraduate students, and 4 research and administrative staff. The degrees offered are a B.S. in Physics, a B.A. in Physics, and a B.S. in Physics - Secondary Education. We also have a new engineering concentration within the physics degree, and a new M.S. program in applied physics has just been approved.

The Department is highly research active, with on-campus laboratories in Nanotechnology, Photonics, Computational Physics, and Robotics. Department faculty also have ongoing work at leading national facilities such as Brookhaven National Lab and Kitt Peak National Observatory. Research interests of the faculty encompass areas as diverse as physics education, materials science, quantum phenomena, astrophysics, fiber optics, and high-temperature superconductivity. Many of the research activities in the Department are funded with external research grants.

The Physics faculty are also actively involved in public outreach, including work to promote science education in Connecticut public schools and other activities.

If you are curious about how the universe works, if you like to tinker and explore, if you get a charge out of solving problems, then you are interested in Physics. Come discover the beauty and power of the foundation science at SCSU! 

Department of Physics
Southern Connecticut State University
501 Crescent Street  
New Haven, Ct 06515 
Main Office: Jennings 108 
Phone: (203) 392-6450

For a brief history of recent activities in the SCSU Physics Department, please click here.