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Our Department Our department currently has 32 graduate faculty (including joint appointments) and 8 faculty at other ranks (lecturers, research faculty). Our graduate program generally has about 75 graduate students and 35 full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellows associated with it at any given time, along with a varying number of Visiting Scholars and other distinguished guests. In most years we have about 40 undergraduate majors in our department, many of them working in our research programs. Our Research We have very active research programs that span many areas of physics, from thermal effects in mesoscopic systems to the nature of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. (Check individual faculty listings for more details.) In addition to recently renovated space in Dearborn Observatory and Northwestern's Technological Institute, our faculty use dozens of off-campus research facilities, from the CERN particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland to the Hubble Space Telescope. (Want to see a full list? Click here!) Last year, our research budget was in excess of $7,000,000. Undergraduate Program Do you want to be a physics or astronomy major? Then select one of the links below to find out what Northwestern has to offer. Not sure if you want to be a physics or astronomy major? Not sure even what the major is? Then you might want to read this little essay: Physics & Astronomy as a Career.
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