Welcome!
We want to take this opportunity to briefly introduce you to our Department. We offer stimulating educational and research programs for both undergraduate and graduate students. For undergraduates, we have a rich variety of degree programs including biomedical physics (with premed option), or applied physics and engineering. Both can be examined in more detail (along with other possibilities) on the undergraduate page. Students taking classes can also find a variety of help and information on this page. We also offer our undergraduate students access to Northeastern’s world-famous model of Cooperative Education, which gives them unparalleled opportunities to explore and gain real-world work experience. For graduate study, we offer intensive and well-funded research programs in theoretical and experimental particle physics, condensed matter and nanophysics, biological physics, and network science. Our faculty are world renowned scientists working at the frontiers of their respective fields. We welcome you to browse our web-site, check out our Newsletter and enjoy the videos below, which help to capture some of the excitement our department has to offer.
Congratuations to Undergrad Justin Dowd, winner of the Metro's Race to Space Contest
See his winning entry
Follow Justin's journey as he begins a biweekly column for the Metro.us paper and website.
Newly Admitted Students
Please visit NU Admissions to register for an upcoming visit.
Recent News
A New Model for our ‘Bursty Behavior’
It’s a rather unsurprising idea: Humans do things in bursts of activity. “We do not do things uniformly,” said Albert-László Barabási, a Distinguished Professor of Physics with joint appointments in the College of Science and the College of Computer and Information Science and founding director of Northeastern’s world-leading Center for Complex Network Research.
Nanotubes and Silicon: Unexpected Ingredients in a New Optical Device
“A lot of discoveries in laboratory are purely accidental,” said Swastik Kar, an assistant professor of physics in the College of Science.
Art + Science = Career
Senior physics major Emily Batt learned an important lesson by conducting research on melancholy 17th-century monks for a directed study as an undeclared freshman.
Upcoming Events
Gold Island Films: Properties and Applications in Localized Plasmon Biosensing
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 12:00 pm
Chaperone Activities of Retrovirus Nucleocapsid Protein
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Dimuon Signals From CMS
Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 11 am
Past Seminars



