We enjoy both a thriving campus environment and close ties to nearby Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Our research began in the 1930s with one spectrometer and has evolved into studies of complex materials, nuclear structure, the brilliant lives and violent deaths of stars, the mysteries of subatomic particles, the burgeoning territory between biology and physics, and innovative approaches to scienc
e education. Many of our students (both graduate and undergraduate) have rolled up their sleeves and gotten down to work in our campus labs and at ORNL (including the Spallation Neutron Source), U.S. and international synchrotron and collider facilities, and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Our faculty comprises outstanding theorists and experimentalists, including five AAAS Fellows and 11 APS Fellows and three NSF CAREER Awardees in the past three years.
