On April 9, 2025, CSU held its 2025 Faculty Excellence Award Celebration. Jearl Walker, who has been teaching at CSU for 52 years, was awarded the Distinguished Professorship at this ceremony. T

 At the Faculty Excellence Award Celebration on April 9, 2025, Associate Professor in Physics, Dr.  Thijs Heus was recognized as CSU’s Distinguished Faculty in Research. Thijs is leading r

 Thanks to generous support from the Physics Dept alumni and friends during the 2024 CSU’s Giving Day, each semester the department awards one Giving Day Physics Scholarship. A recipient is cho

RecapThe fifth year of Cleveland State University’s REU, "Synthesis, Assembly and Characterization of Soft Matter," ran from May 19th through July 25th, 2025, and hosted a truly interdisciplinary co

 In the summer of 2025, physics graduate student James Taton had an exciting internship experience at NASA Grenn Research Center (NASA GRC). James, who is currently a second year MS physics stude

 In a recent episode of the Cleveland Conversations collaboration CSU physicist and educator, Dr. Jearl Walker reflected on his more than five decades career in teaching physics. Dr. Walker talks

At the 1981 Physics of Computation conference, Richard Feynman proposed the idea of a machine—the quantum computer—that could efficiently simulate the physical world. Today, there are several rese

 On April 25, 2025, our chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) held a Sigma PI Sigma (ΣΠΣ) induction ceremony in the gorgeous Mather Mansion on CSU campus. The inductee 2025 class co

 The graduating class of 2025 included two students who finished our BS Physics program: Grace Miller (left) and Jacob Forester (below right). Grace who graduated with two Honors degrees (BS Phys

 The tradition of reunion of the CSU Physics students, faculty, and alumni at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meetings continued in Anaheim, CA in March of 2025, during the APS Global S