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Wilson Ho named Donald Bren Professor,

and joins the Departments of Physics and Astronomy, and Chemistry.

Wilson Ho's Group Web Pages.

UCI Physics and Astronomy ranks 11th in bachelor's degrees produced.

We produced 25 bachelor's degrees in 1998-99.

U. C. Irvine tied for tenth best public undergraduate university in U.S. News newest ranking.

U. C. Irvine tied for 41st in undergraduate education among all American universities.

Recent Honors and Awards to Students and Faculty

 News Reports of Recent Scientific Discoveries of UCI Physics and Astronomy

New Department Sites:

  • Faculty Methods for Course Websites
  • The new Graduate Brochure is now on the web.
  • The department of Physics and Astronomy is starting new graduate programs in a new thesis oriented master's degree program and in the ChaMP (Chemical and Materials Physics) program pioneered by Peter Taborek.
  • We have also revised our graduate curriculum.
  • We are revising our undergraduate curriculum to make them more phenomena and computational oriented with practical education included, as described by our undergraduate committee chair Bill Heidbrink.
  • Our excellent lecture demonstration program has recently been put on the web by Ferdi Badescu and John Rosendahl.
  • Tammy Smecker-Hane has recently founded the  UCI Astronomy Club described in our newsletter.

  • The complete description of our department projects, researchers, on campus labs, and off campus labs are in the faculty research pages , the group research pages , and our five department newsletters. These include strong experimental and theoretical groups in condensed matter, plasma physics, high energy laboratory physics, high energy cosmic physics, gravity, and in astrophysics and astronomy.


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