Current Students
Our students are bright, committed scholars who consistently make the Department proud with their achievements in research and education--our incoming freshman have an average ACT score 27.5, and each November we have the largest contingency of students presenting at the Argonne Undergraduate Symposium. They have won multiple local, university and national awards, including the American Physical Society Leroy Apker Award--the highest academic and research recognition awarded to an undergraduate Physics student in the United States.
As an undergraduate-only department, our students enjoy the benefits of a close faculty to student ratio as well as opportunities for research, employment, and scholarships. With so many opportunities our students keep themselves busy, participating in the many extracurricular Physics programs available through the Department, including the ISU Physics Club, Trebuchet Team, Solar Car Team, Physics on the Road, and the newly formed Physics Honors Society. Browse the links below to find out more about extracurricular opportunities, career services, scholarships, and information about courses and schedule planning.
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Scholarships, Awards and Prizes
Click here for a list of scholarships, awards and prizes.
Out of Class Opportunities
- Skadron Awards in Computational Physics
- Solar Car
- Trebuchet Team
- Innovative Design Project
- Co-Sciences Floor (Hewett Residence Hall - 11th Floor)
Career Services
ISU Opportunities
ISU Jobs - This online database lists student, faculty, and staff postings. You can browse through available jobs and apply directly online.
External Career and
Job Opportunities
- AIP (American Institute of Physics) Jobs Database
- APS (American Physical Society) Careers and Employment Homepage
- APS (American Physical Society) List of Physics-related Employment Links
- IOP (Institute of Physics) PhysicsJobs page
- TIPTOP (The Internet Pilot TO Physics) job pagePhysics jobs worldwide
- NASA Job Opportunities - by Center
- Argonne National Lab Job Openings and Research Opportunities
- Fermilab Employment Opportunities
- Los Alamos National Lab Jobs@LANL
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab Jobs
- NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) Current Job Openings
- NREL (National Renewable Energy Lab) Employment at NREL
- NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Index of Job Opportunities
- NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) NCSA Employment Opportunities
- Sandia National Lab Career Opportunities
- SDSC (San Diego Supercomputer Center) SDSC Jobs Bank
- REU site list: Physics, Materials Science, Astronomy List of sites for the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program run by NSF (a good source of summer research positions for undergrads)
- The Physics Career Cornerstone Affords students an opportunity to pose questions to physicists about careers in the physical sciences.