Caltech professor Jared Leadbetter meets with university admissions ambassadors, from left, Emily Hu, Jj Jones and Miles Jones. Leadbetter helped develop an alternative path to admissions, dropping ...

Physics faces an equity problem. According to the latest statistics from the American Physical Society, underrepresented minorities accounted for only 15% of bachelor’s degrees, 12% of master’s ...

Although more women than men in the U.S. earn college degrees, striking gender gaps remain in specific disciplines. Men significantly outnumber women in several STEM (science, technology, engineering, ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Experts see peer recognition as important to student success in physics, and a new study gives college-level physics instructors insight into how students perceive the message from ...

General Physics for Majors course designed by CU Boulder Professors Eric Cornell and Paul Beale shows students that the furthest reaches of science are built on fundamental concepts The Nobel laureate ...

UC Santa Cruz physicists took questions from the crowd at an October 29 community event held by the campus group Santa Cruz Organization for Outreach in Physics. From left to right: professors Amy ...

Students with an interest in sports looking to add a science course to their schedule may consider an updated four credit-hour version of a course offered through the physics department: Physics 1111: ...

Kimberly Miranda is the brainy daughter of Guatemalan immigrants and the first in her family to attend college. But she almost didn't make it to the California Institute of Technology. Her Redwood ...