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About
Physics concerns itself with the deduction and establishment of the principles which underlie the observable phenomena of the physical universe. If your scientific curiosity has led you to consider a career in physics, the Physics Department at Saint Michael’s College offers a very competitive program that prepares you for graduate study, industry or teaching.
Learn more about the Physics program from our Saint Michael’s professors in the video below:
Faculty
In Depth
As a physics minor, you will begin with the study of the fundamentals of how nature works: motion, energy, electrodynamics, and thermodynamics. From there, a tour of modern physics, establishing the need for the study of the quantum world and Einstein’s theories of relativity.
Our department faculty are active teacher-scholars, with research experience in theory and experiment. We frequently bring students into our research programs via internal and external funding, and encourage them to present their work at national and regional conferences. Many students use the junior seminar as a prelude to a summer research internship at other universities through the NSF REU program or at national labs and centers. Students can participate in the SMC chapter of the Society for Physics Students and can operate the telescopes at the Holcomb Observatory on campus.
Careers
Our alumni have found success in research, industry, and education. Recent Physics graduates are employed at firms including:
- Lockheed-Martin
- B.F. Goodrich Aerospace
- Microsoft
- Biogen Idec
- Ingersoll-Rand
and a variety of schools and colleges including:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- University of Rochester
Graduate Study
Recent Physics graduates have gone on to graduate programs at:
- Brandeis
- Boston University
- Notre Dame
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Utah
Internships
The Academic Internship Program at Saint Michael’s is an experience whereby students, participating employers and the College enter into a partnership designed to give students career-related, pre-professional work by fulfilling academically meaningful work assignments for their employers. Internships are supervised work experiences in both the public and private sectors. They are designed to enhance and supplement formal education and promote personal and career development.
Physics students ts at Saint Michael’s have done internships with the National Weather Service, the University of Vermont Biophysics Lab, and the State of Vermont Forensics lab.
Research
Student participation in research activities is encouraged and a number of our students have taken advantage of on-campus student/faculty research activities, off-campus internships and National Science Foundation-sponsored programs such as Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) during the summer. Research interests of the faculty include:
- space
- fusion and astrophysical plasma physics
- optical properties of condensed-matter systems
- high energy physics and cosmology
Current and prospective undergraduate research students in the natural sciences, math, and engineering can find research opportunities on webguru.
In Depth
As a physics minor, you will begin with the study of the fundamentals of how nature works: motion, energy, electrodynamics, and thermodynamics. From there, a tour of modern physics, establishing the need for the study of the quantum world and Einstein’s theories of relativity.
Our department faculty are active teacher-scholars, with research experience in theory and experiment. We frequently bring students into our research programs via internal and external funding, and encourage them to present their work at national and regional conferences. Many students use the junior seminar as a prelude to a summer research internship at other universities through the NSF REU program or at national labs and centers. Students can participate in the SMC chapter of the Society for Physics Students and can operate the telescopes at the Holcomb Observatory on campus.
Careers
Our alumni have found success in research, industry, and education. Recent Physics graduates are employed at firms including:
- Lockheed-Martin
- B.F. Goodrich Aerospace
- Microsoft
- Biogen Idec
- Ingersoll-Rand
and a variety of schools and colleges including:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- University of Rochester
Graduate Study
Recent Physics graduates have gone on to graduate programs at:
- Brandeis
- Boston University
- Notre Dame
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Utah
Internships
The Academic Internship Program at Saint Michael’s is an experience whereby students, participating employers and the College enter into a partnership designed to give students career-related, pre-professional work by fulfilling academically meaningful work assignments for their employers. Internships are supervised work experiences in both the public and private sectors. They are designed to enhance and supplement formal education and promote personal and career development.
Physics students ts at Saint Michael’s have done internships with the National Weather Service, the University of Vermont Biophysics Lab, and the State of Vermont Forensics lab.
Research
Student participation in research activities is encouraged and a number of our students have taken advantage of on-campus student/faculty research activities, off-campus internships and National Science Foundation-sponsored programs such as Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) during the summer. Research interests of the faculty include:
- space
- fusion and astrophysical plasma physics
- optical properties of condensed-matter systems
- high energy physics and cosmology
Current and prospective undergraduate research students in the natural sciences, math, and engineering can find research opportunities on webguru.
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