Fresno State Physics Department

05/14/2026

Congratulations to MS student Daniel Ho**er for receiving the Division of Graduate Studies Exemplary Student award (top picture with Daniel in the middle, and Prof. Gerardo Munoz on the left) and the CSM Outstanding Thesis Award (bottom picture -- Daniel in the middle, flanked by Profs. Gerardo Munoz and Doug Singleton).

04/30/2026

Two of our students, Christian RJ Castillo and Jonathan Andrade Antonio, were awarded prizes at the latest Central California Research Symposium. Both were mentored by Dr. Pei-Chun Ho.

04/19/2026

The 2026 graduation dinner is on May 8th, starting at 6:00 pm at Yerevan's on 7747 N. First Street. Hope to see alumni and former faculty there.

04/08/2026

Picture of Fresno State physics students -- Sam Khudayberdiev, Johnathan Andrade Antonio, and Chrisitan Castillo -- giving talks at the 2026 APS Global Physics Summit.

03/23/2026

Fresno State physics student
Nursultan "Sam" Khudayberdiev presented his work on robots that can pick strawberries at the APS GPS 2026 meeting. Sam was interviewed about his work by the APS. The video of his interview is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWikSnYTZPk . Congrautlations Sam!!

Can physics and artificial intelligence help harvest the future of agriculture?At the APS Global Physics Summit, we met Nursultan Khudayberdiev (Sam), a youn...

01/25/2026

Prof. Steve White was recently honored for his amazing work on the Downing Planetarium and Science Museum at the Spring semester opening address. See the video at

On the north edge of our campus lies a portal to the universe. For a quarter-century, it has transported college students, schoolchildren, and the public to ...

01/09/2026

Dr. Mihai Gherase was just elected to the chair line of the American Physical Society Far West Section. Congratulations Mihai!

12/16/2025

Prof. Don Williams, Prof. Joseph White and Sara Lopez doing physics outreach on the KSEE 24 afternoon show with Kayla

Who says science can’t be fun? As part of Kayla’s Favorite Things, host Kayla Holt stepped into the world of physics, rolling up her sleeves to take on hands-on experiments that prove learning can …

10/01/2025

There is a Physics Colloquium this Friday, October 3rd, from 3-4 pm in McLane 162. The speaker is Dr. Yuhang Deng from UCSD, and the title of the talk is "Correlated Electron Materials at Extreme Conditions". See attached flier for more details.

09/15/2025

The department has a colloquium this Friday from 3-4 pm in McLane 162. The speaker is Dr. Elizabeth Nowadnick from UC Merced. The tiel and abstract for hte talk are in the attached fliers.