The Department of Physics at the University of Houston has 36 ranked faculty members, including eight distinguished or chaired professors. Faculty members have received awards such as the National Medal of Science, the Freedoms Foundation Award, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Scientist Award, the Materials Research Society Von Hippel Award, and the Max Planck Research Award. A wide range of research is conducted by the Department of Physics, both traditional and non-traditional - and faculty and students collaborate on projects with everyone from NASA to the world's top oil companies.
Opening - 00:00
Complex Systems - 00:43
Material Synthesis - 01:25
Biological Physics - 02:01
Mission-Oriented Seismic Research - 02:29
Research Collaborations at CERN and Brookhaven National Lab - 03:19
Undergraduate Student Opportunities - 04:27
Diversity in Physics and UH - 05:07
City of Houston - 05:47