Most of our graduates are employed as university or college faculty, or in senior technical or managerial positions in industrial, commercial, or research institutions.

The Department of Physics offers vigorous, cutting-edge interdisciplinary research programs in new materials, nanoscience, quantum devices, biomolecular physics, complex systems, cosmology, high-energy physics and atmospheric physics.

The Department of Physics provides the primary locus for learning, research and service in basic and applied physics. We offer rigorous training in physics at both undergraduate and graduate levels, and are actively involved in collaborative outreach, serving the Western New York community and neighboring schools. 

Physics Study – What does it include?

Physics traditionally is a science that asks the deepest question of nature: How can one understand the workings of the universe around us, from the smallest to the biggest? Nature continually challenges us to explain how matter forms and how it acquires certain properties.

Physics today, with the help of modern technology, creates man-made structures beyond nature's ability to offer. It borders and mixes with the neighboring disciplines of chemistry, engineering and biology. Physics research at UB is conducted through vigorous, interdisciplinary collaboration with a wide range of science and engineering departments throughout the world.

Products of UB Physics are well-represented by our successful alumni, with more than 100 PhD's graduated in the last ten years.