Janak Thapa '13 receiving the Outstanding Junior Award for 2011-12 from Prof. Thushara Perera. (More About Our Current Students Here.)

As a physicist, you will study the patterns and connections among the fundamental forces of nature and develop simple and contemporary explanations for complex natural phenomena.

Physics is the basis for developing and exploring technology and engineering in areas as diverse as electronics, telecommunications, computers, medicine and nuclear energy.

Prof. Linda French leads NSF-funded study of asteroids. (More News About Our Faculty Here.)

The physics program at Illinois Wesleyan offers solid preparation for anyone interested in becoming a scientist, a professor, an engineer, or an applied physicist.

Above all, you will learn how to learn, in the manner of a careful, thoughtful, well-educated citizen.

You will benefit from our University-wide emphasis on the liberal arts, which we see as an uncompromising search for truth and beauty.

From the first year onward, great emphasis is placed on extensive experimental work.

In fact, the physics curriculum at Illinois Wesleyan is as much a hands-on, experiment-based investigation as it is a theoretical discipline.

 

 

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Physics Department

Linda French, Chair
Illinois Wesleyan University
P.O. Box 2900
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900

Phone: (309) 556-3580
Fax: (309) 556-3864
lfrench@iwu.edu