I take pleasure in welcoming you to the website of the Physics Department in the College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology     (NJIT).  On this website you will find information about the department, its faculty, instructors, students and staff, the undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Applied Physics, and the department’s academic and research activities.  We hope that you will find this information useful, whether you are a current or prospective student, a parent, alum, a researcher or faculty member at another institution, or are simply interested in physics as a career or avocation. 

The great strength of the NJIT Physics Department is scientific research, both basic and applied.  Our faculty members bring in more federal research dollars per capita than any other department at NJIT, with leading programs in solar-terrestrial research, optics, and materials science, and a growing new program in biophysics.  Our students at both the undergraduate and graduate level enjoy broad opportunities to engage in front-line research under expert NJIT faculty, in collaboration with other top universities, government centers, and industry around the country and all over the world.  Through numerous recent hires, our faculty members include ever increasing numbers of ambitious young professors who are eager to share their knowledge with our students.  Together with award winning, seasoned professors, special lecturers, and adjunct faculty, we offer our students not dry academia, but vibrant, research-based academic excellence to prepare them for the technologically advanced careers of tomorrow.

Thank you for your interest in the NJIT Physics Department.

Dale Gary
Chairperson
Director of Owens Valley Solar Array
Associate Director of Big Bear Solar Observatory