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MSU's Department of Physics and Astronomy is one of the top-ranked departments in the country.


In addition to our Physics degree programs, we offer a separate undergraduate and graduate program in Astronomy & Astrophysics.

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Physics alumna Dr. Azam Niroomand-Rad (M.S. 1971, Ph.D. 1978) received the 2010 MSU College of Natural Science Outstanding Alumni Award.


Physics graduate student Sarah Heim received one of two 2010 Tracy A. Hammer Graduate Student Awards For Professional Development from the MSU College of Natural Science.
Physics major Gabrielle Tepp is one of 23 students honored by the MSU Board of Trustees for academic excellence.
Physics/Astrophysics senior Nathan Sanders received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Bernard Pope is one of ten 2010 Distinguished Faculty Award recipients.
Physics and astrophysics senior Jessica Muir named 2010 Marshall Scholar.
Timothy Beers receives a 2009 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Research Award and achieves ISI's "Highly Cited Researcher" rating in its multi-year rolling average research citations listing.
Interview with two incoming freshmen physics/astronomy majors on 1320 WILS.
Two Physics/Astronomy juniors named Goldwater Scholars.
Kyoko Makino & Martin Berz receive 3rd R. E. Moore Prize for Applications of Interval Analysis at SCAN 2008.
Martin Berz receives honorary doctorate from St. Peterburg University in Russia.
Georg Bollen shares 2008 SUNAMCO Medal awarded by IUPAP Commission C2.

 
Alexandra Gade named 2008 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow.


David Tománek receives the 2008 Japan Carbon Award for Life-Time Achievement.
Timothy Beers and Wolfgang Bauer named University Distinguished Professors.
Physics senior Victoria Moeller wins prestigious Gates Scholarship.
Jack Baldwin wins 2007 MSU Distinguished Faculty Award.
Adjunct Professor Albert Fert wins prestigious prizes.
Michael Thoennessen (2005) and Timothy Beers (2006) receive the MSU Distinguished Faculty Award.
Randy Cowen adds $1,000,000 to the Cowen Chair endowment fund.
Krauss Family Foundation endows Graduate Fellowship in High Energy Physics.
George Brown donates Endowed Chairs for Physics and Chemistry.
Raymond Brock and Alex Brown receive 2004 MSU Distinguished Faculty Award.
P-A alumnus Eugene Parker wins Kyoto Prize, donates 1/4 to SOAR.
Brad Sherrill and Gary Westfall named University Distinguished Professors.
Milton Muelder endows distinguished lectureship.
Carl L. Foiles Award for Physics Students endowed.
Hantel Fellowship for undergraduate students established with $300,000 gift.
Milton Muelder gives over $300,000 to the SOAR Telescope project.

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