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Department Funds
Physics Undergraduate Research Excellence Fund
The physics department is continually searching for ways and means to engage undergraduate students in research. Establishing an undergraduate research fund to provide support for top-performing students would enhance ongoing efforts, helping the department retain promising students during the summer quarter.
Physics Instructional Lab Upgrade Fund
The physics department takes great pride in its instructional lab offerings for undergraduates. We are introducing new experiements on holography, magneto-optical traps, and positron emission tomography. We seek to further enhance our offerings by upgrading existing equipment and adding more new experiments, including integrating large-scale data acquisition and mining activities into the standard labs, and adding experiments demonstrating quantum physics in the modern context of entanglement of many-body systems as sought for quantum computation.
Physics Colloquium and Seminar Fund
The presence of out-of-state speakers offers immense benefits to the department, not only by exposing students to cutting-edge research not covered by our own faculty, but also by fostering new collaborations. This is especially valuable for our junior members—postdocs and students—who gain access to potential collaborators and career opportunities through such interactions. Additionally, these visits enhance the department’s national and international visibility, strengthening our academic reputation.
Physics Undergraduate Research Travel Fund
Undergraduate research can be a transformative educational experience. An essential aspect of research is the communication of ideas and networking within the field, which is the dual purpose of scientific conferences. We seek to enhance the undergraduate research experience by offering to select undergraduates, the opportunity to travel to a research conference during the academic year.
Physics Graduate Fellowships Fund
Enable the department to provide greater support to graduate students conducting original research in various fields of physics.
Physics Achievement Fund
Provide flexible support for educational and research projects and other initiatives in the Physics Department, based on departmental priorities.
If you are interested in supporting specific goals that are not included in the options above, please use the contact information below to discuss this.
If you are interested in supporting the activities of the Physics Department at UCSC and would like to discuss it further, please contact Onuttom Narayan (Department Chair) onarayan@ucsc.edu or Theo-Alyce Gordon (Department Manager) thkgordo@ucsc.edu. Opportunities for named colloquia, laboratories, and graduate and undergraduate fellowships are available.