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Students with graduation caps

Physics students, staff and faculty receive recognition at spring ceremony

CU Physics Professor Jun Ye is Awarded the Monroe Endowed Professorship

Researchers holding a transparent film in front of the mountains

CU Physics Professor Ivan Smalyukh and His Team Receive a Guinness Book of World Records Award for Most Transparent Material

Researchers in astronomy, physics, and math

Physics team awarded $38k from Dean’s Innovation Fund to improve undergraduate research access

Quantum Scholars students listen to a presentation in a lecture hall

SPIE commits $100,000 in matching funds to grow Quantum Scholars Program

59

full-time faculty

4

Nobel Prizes in Physics since 2001

$84 million

in research expenditures in 2024

#1

best public university in atomic, molecular and optical physics
(2023 US News & World Report)

329

PhD students

100

undergraduate degrees awarded annually

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