Univeristy of Idaho
Department of Physics

Welcome
Our campus is located in Moscow in the beautiful rolling hills of northwestern Idaho, an area of spectacular natural beauty with ready access to snow-covered mountains and whitewater rivers. As a small, high-quality department we offer a personalized physics educational experience for all our students. Feel welcome to browse our website and learn about our department. We hope prospective students will join us in the exciting educational and research opportunities to be found at the University of Idaho. We hope your visit is enjoyable, as well as educational.

Wei-Jiang Yeh
Chair, Department of Physics 

Engineering-Physics Building (left) and Moscow Mountain (right, in the distance)

About the Department
The University of Idaho Department of Physics is the primary Ph.D. granting physics department in the state of Idaho. Our faculty are internationally recognized for their outstanding research in physics. Our graduate students constitute an integral part of that research and many of our undergraduate students are active participatants as well. We have strong research programs in nuclear physics, condensed matter physics, nanophysics, astonomy and computational bio-physics. We are a friendly and vigorous faculty who enjoy and take personal pride in involving students in the excitement and challenges at the forefront of research. We have a first-rate support staff that assists in all educational, research, and outreach activities.

Interested in getting to know us better? Are you a prospective student? Let us know when you will be on campus and one of our faculty will be glad to sit down and talk with you and tell you about our program. For more information contact our Administrative Assistant  Karlarose Erhard-Hudson or our Department Chair Professor Wei-Jiang Yeh or call 208-885-6380. We hope to hear from you!

This website was partially supported by the NSF-Idaho EPSCoR Program and by the National Science Foundation under award number EPS-0132626

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