Graduate Student Blog

February 1, 2020 is the deadline for Illinois Physics Grad Travel Award applications for February - May 2020 conference travel.

This is a reminder that December 15 is the last day to apply for the APS Congressional Science Fellowship.

UAB-Physics is looking to recruit excellent faculty to fill our open-rank position in condensed matter theory/computation and experiment.

Stephen Wolfram, creator of Wolfram|Alpha and Mathematica, is hosting a discussion, book signing and networking event to celebrate the launch of his new book, Adventures of a Computational Explorer.

Illinois Physics PhD student Rachel Nguyen was interviewed by Live Science about her first-author publication in Physical Review Letters.

November 22, 2019 is the last day to make requests for Spring 2020 TA appointments.

Survey data show that PhD physicists find satisfaction in a wide range of careers, from academia to government to industry.

There is a faculty search this year in the area of experimental quantum information and materials / condensed matter at Washington University in St. Louis.

The Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials MRSEC announces the competition for the 2020 CDCM MRSEC Postdoctoral Fellowships.

The American Physical Society is looking for a new Chapters Program Manager to pioneer new programs to support physics students and recent graduates, and help to ensure a bright future for the field of physics.

The Zhang group in the MatSE Department and Materials Research Laboratory has an opening for a graduate research assistant. 

The Fall 2019 Physics Careers Seminar series concludes on November 15 next week with a presentation by alumnus Dr. Keith Cassidy from the University of Oxford.

January 21, 2020 and April 23, 2020 are two very important dates for students planning a thesis defense in Spring 2020.

Friday, November 15 is the last day to drop individual full term Fall semester courses without a grade of W.

The Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, at The Rockefeller University, expects to have a small number of postdoctoral fellowships available for appointments in September 2020.

Microsoft Station Q Purdue is looking for post-doctoral associates to study low temperature transport phenomena and a quantum engineer to use quantum transport measurement techniques to characterize new semiconductor/superconductor materials and devices.