Cutting-Edge Science—Urbana style - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Physics

The Department of Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a top-ranked physics department with world-class faculty at a major research university. They have among the largest graduate and undergraduate programs in physics, training tomorrow’s scientific leaders. The graduate program in condensed matter physics is ranked number one in the US and all of their core subdisciplines are characterized by stellar faculty who hold leadership roles in their fields, including in some of the biggest global science experiments. This is a large department where every scientist, regardless of race, cultural, or gender identity, contributes to leading-edge science and innovative teaching in an open and dynamic intellectual climate. Their brand of physics is “the Urbana style,” rooted in their illustrious history, today seen in the collaborative research and collaborative centers that bridge theory and experiment, the boundaries between physics subdisciplines, as well as the boundaries between other fundamental science and engineering fields. Physics underlies everything, at all scales. Our faculty work on the biggest open questions and are making tremendous strides in our fundamental understanding of the universe, at all scales