We are pleased to announce that our former undergraduate student, Nolan Craft, received the 2022 F. Ray Wilson Award for Best Thesis in the Physical and Life Sciences in the Honors Program of Baylor University. Nolan graduated last May, and he is currently in the graduate program at Rice University. Big congratulations to Nolan and his supervisor at Baylor, Dr. Zhenrong Zhang.

Interested in our graduate programs? Check out this 4-minutes video!

A Baylor University physics professor, Dr. Dittmann, who was part of the team that confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson recently gave a lecture on the decade-old discovery. Check out history on Waco Tribune!

It is with a heavy heart that we share with you the passing of our senior Stephen Stec, who died in an automobile accident this past Saturday near Marshall, Texas. Stephen was a presidential scholar majoring in astrophysics.

Dr. Wang is excited to announce that Baylor is now accepted to participate in the international BINGO project. The BINGO Project aims at building a special purpose radio telescope to map redshifted neutral hydrogen emission between z = 0.13 and 0.45. BINGO stands for Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Integrated Neutral Gas Observations.

We had a good showing at the 2022 Texas Section American Physical Society (TSAPS) fall meeting hosted by Rice University. About ten students, a mix of graduate students and undergraduate students, presented their research works. And, among them, our undergraduate student, Amen Patel, was awarded the 2022 TSAPS Robert S. Hyer Award! Congratulations to Aman and his mentor, Prof. Zhenrong Zhang.

Meet Baylor’s expert on dusty plasma — also known as ‘cosmic dust bunnies’. Picture the dust bunnies that are probably hiding somewhere around your home. (It’s okay to admit it; we all have them.) Now imagine those dust bunnies, but on a cosmic level.

See this post about a short interview of Dr. Zhanng. "We teach students, and we need compassion to be able to educate them. You need to give them challenges so they can grow." At Baylor, research is driven by compassion, curiosity & courage.

Meet the Baylor professor whose invention makes tiny reactions visible! How big is a nanometer? To envision something so small, envision the width of a human hair. Now divide the tip of that hair by 100,000. Now, you’re in the ballpark.

Congratulations to Prof. Olafsen, 2021 recipient of the Elizabeth Vardaman Award for excellence in research leadership. This "Betsy" Award recognizes Dr. Olafsen's leadership of the successful Goldwater Scholarship program at Baylor.

Congratulations to physics undergraduate students Aman Patel and Weston Hall, recipients of Outstanding Platform and Poster Presentations at URSA Scholars Week, and their research mentors, Dr. Zhenrong Zhang and Dr. Barbara Castanheira-Endl.

Great Physics Habitat for Humanity workday on Saturday, March 26, with physics grad students and SPS members. Thanks to Dustin Sanford, Baylor Physics alumni, who is the new Construction Supervisor for Waco Habitat.

Congrats to senior physics major Weston Hall for winning an undergraduate research paper award at the Southwest Data Science Conference held at Baylor on March 25, 2022.

We are proud to announce Dr. Barbara Castanheira-Endl's well-deserved promotion to Senior Lecturer.

We are proud to announce Dr. Zhenrong Zhang's well-deserved promotion to Full Professor!

Baylor physicist Dr. Jay Dittmann was highlighted in a Baylor A&S magazine. In this Q&A, he discussed his role at CERN and Baylor’s participation in this important research project. Please check it out.

Mr. Garrett Williams, who graduated Baylor in Spring 2019, won the 2021 Student Essay Competition by the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition.

A nanometer is just 1/1000,000 the width of a human hair — but chemical reactions taking place at that level have significant implications in countless fields. That’s where Dr. Zhenrong Zhang, a Baylor physics professor, comes in.

Many current members and recent graduates made contributions to the 28th International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY 2021) held virtually over August 23-28, 2021.

Dr. Lorin Matthews, a long time department member, early on as a student and as a faculty member in recent years, will start leading the Physics Department as a new department chair as of August 2021.