Physics and
Engineering Physics

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Outcomes

Graduates report that Juniata's interactive and attentive method of teaching and liberal arts philosophy gave them an advantage over their peers in graduate school and professionally.

A couple of graduates each year, on average, enter the teaching profession, while other graduates head to graduate school or into industrial positions. Physics students have been accepted into graduate programs across the country including:

Graduates also have used their physics education as stepping stones into medical school, engineering programs, information technology, and environmental science.

Bill Phillips

William Phillips '70 is the winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics, for his work in advancing basic knowledge and new techniques to chill atoms to extremely low temperatures.

Student Outcomes

Eric Flummerfelt '09 spent summer 2009 as an intern at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories and is attending the University of Tennessee at Knoxville to earn a graduate degree in physics.

Michael Madden '09 is earning a master's degree in physics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Dan D'Orazio '09 received a Fulbright to study astrophysics at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.

Mike Wilson '09 is attending Penn State to study acoustics.

Zachary Bock '08 (engineering physics) is a test technician at Architectural Testing Inc. in York, Pa.

Nicholas Gabor '08 (engineering physics) is a lead assembly technician at TesTex in Plum, Pa.

Justin Schultz '08 is a 2008 Fulbright Fellowship at the Australian National University of Canberra.

Sarah Bender '07 is a research associate at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Daniel Sidor '07 is a graduate student in physics at the University of California, Riverside.

Acacia Brunett '07 (pre-engineering) is a graduate student in nuclear engineering at Ohio State.

Research and Industry

Engineering

Academic Posts

Training in Physics applied to related fields