The Department of Physics and Astronomy is excited to welcome students to a new year. This video briefly introduces new students to our faculty and staff.
21 women student attend conference at Montana State University, where students engaged in keynote speeches, panels, and research presentations.
Dr. Powers initiated the effort to update BYU’s physics undergraduate lab curriculum in 2015. The revamped curriculum, aimed at teaching students how to construct knowledge from experiments.
Dr. Stephens participated in a research project at the University of Arizona focused on studying brown dwarfs using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
Alumni Adam Fennimore shares career insights for current students
BYU's SPS is selected for Marsh Award for their outreach plan with Boys & Girls Club
Hart, Gee, and their research group study the impact of rocket noise on wildlife
Darin Ragozzine collaborates with leading planetary scientists in France
Dr. Greg Francis joins faculty, specializing in Physics Education
Alumni Steve Summers answers interview questions for current students
Y Magazine recognizes finalist for the 2023 National Science Foundation’s Presidential Award of Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching
Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics provides support and opportunities for female BYU physics students
Dr. Micah Shepherd, Acoustic Physicist, joins faculty
Dr. Karine Chesnel awarded Interdisciplinary Research Origination Grant
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- Sommerfeldts Called as Mission Leaders
- Sounding out the Deep: Traci Neilsen’s Trip to the North Atlantic
- Reveling in Uncertainty
- Screening of Particle Fever
- BYU Acoustics Records Artemis Launch
- 11/15 Theory Seminar: Can Kilic
- West Mountain Observatory contributes to understand distant galaxy
- Dr. Aleksandr Mosenkov, new Astronomy faculty
- Dr. Tim Leishman retires from BYU
- Dr. John Colton: Table Tennis Champion
- Debunking acoustics myths around the Saturn V
- Physics and Astronomy Student Advisory Board
- Mystery of Haumea's Formation Solved
- Capturing Images at the New Mexico Observatory
- Dr. Steve Turley -NSF Program Officer
- Planetarium Updates
- New Professor Dr. Benjamin Boizelle
- Dr. Dennis Della Corte launches Consortium of Molecular Design
- American Association of Physics Teachers Meet in Provo
- Dr. Scott Sommerfeldt Awarded an ASA Silver Medal
- Sabbatical at Cambridge for Dr. Gus Hart
- Dr. Richard Sandberg, Brings Ultrafast Optics to Materials Research
- Mark Transtrum: BYU Early Career Scholarship Award
- Eric Hirschman honored for exceptional service
- Darin Ragozzine receives Young Scholar Award
- Technology transfer award for a quieter airplane toilet
- BYU Physics & Astronomy During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Brian Anderson
- See the Stars Even Better at the ESC Observatory
- Catching up on Five Years
- Gary Stradling
- Scott Sommerfeldt, ASA Vice President
- LCA Postings
- Professor Receives Early Career Award
- Professional Faculty Job Opening
- BYU Physics Student Highlighted by APS
- New Campus 0.6-m Telescope
- How Many Earth-Like Planets Exist in the Universe?
- Battle of the Motors
- Researchers invent a quieter airplane toilet
- BYU Top in Addressing Shortage of Physics Teachers
- BYU study produces 3D images
- "Playing flag football at BYU has allowed me to make some great friendships"
- Physics Employee is Student Employee of the Year
- Astronomer co-authors paper in Nature
- Producing stronger, more pliable metals
- Hottest known planet discovery published in Nature
- A Master, A Teacher, A Leader
- Lego figurines don’t stand a chance against time reversal
- BYU researchers help discover massive exoplanet
- Sunshine matters a lot to mental health
- Dr. Neilsen Balances Family, Research, Classes, and Receives Award
- Professor Receives Outstanding Referee Award
- BYU Produces the Most Certified Physics Teachers
- BYU GALs Program Sheds Light on Physics
- Searching for Alien Comets: BYU Researchers Create Guidebook to Aid in First Discovery
- Physics Professor Makes Nanomagnetism Discovery
- Vatican Astronomer Bridges Faith and Science
- Harvey Fletcher, BYU’s first Physics graduate wins a posthumous grammy award
- BYU Professor Honored by Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters
- Physicists Can Be Writers, Too
- Physics Alumnus Improves Radar Systems
- Award-Winning Professor Puts Students First
- Lighting up the Science Center
- For the Love of Teaching… and Physics
- The Sound of Music, According to Physicists
- Burning Calories to Better Science
- Physicist Helps Students Shine
- Professor’s Curiosity Drives Research
- By Small and Simple Magnets Are Great Things Brought to Pass
- Craters Come to Astrofest
- Astrofest Brings the Stars to BYU
- BYU’s Physics Teaching Program Gains National Attention
- Student’s Nanocrystals Make Him a Wanted Man
- BYU uses planet-hunting satellite to observe supermassive black hole
- Google Glass adaptation opens the universe to deaf students
- BYU researchers create tiny nano-device in newest gene therapy advance
- Prestigious publication for ‘sloppy’ research
- The science of stadium sound
- Tiny cupid proof that BYU students love nanotechnology
- Harold Stokes: Dr. Superman
- Movement of black holes powers the universe’s brightest lights
- Rockets, gongs and Gatling guns make really loud science
- Scientists grow micro-machines (and "nano Jimmer") from carbon
- BYU telescope captures Halloween sights in the stars?
- Futuristic computing designs inside beetle scales
- Harvey Fletcher is Honored Founder for BYU Homecoming 2010
- BYU study: Halley’s comet first observed by ancient Greeks?
- BYU physics professor named fellow by National Science Foundation
- BYU's Scott D. Sommerfeldt elected to ASA Executive Council
- BYU study adds a ‘twist’ to stars’ death throes
- Nature and electronics meet: How to make a tiny wire and connect it to DNA
- Elder Richard G. Scott dedicates Royden G. Derrick Planetarium at BYU Sept. 28
- BYU undergraduate makes 'cents' of rare coins
- BYU scientists discuss yodeling, jet crackle and hearing
- BYU students to compete in Mars rover event in southern Utah desert
- BYU professor receives national acoustic education award
- BYU study another step in the march toward better superconductors
- BYU students experiment onboard NASA's "Vomit Comet"
- BYU mirror headed to space on Venus Express
- BYU astronomy department unveils new planetarium
- BYU physics professor receives national recognition
- BYU physicists quiet fans in computers, office equipment
- Preparing earthlings for Mars
- BYU physics professor appointed scholar-in-residence