Department Highlights

  • Hao Zeng - elected as the 2024 Fellow of the American Physical Society
    4/9/25
    Fellow of the American Physical Society is a great honor, recognizing excellence in physics and exceptional service to the physics community. Each year, no more than one half of one percent of the Society membership is recognized by their peers for election to APS Fellow.
  • High Energy Collaboration with CERN (CMS, LHC and ATLAS) receive Breakthrough prize
    4/9/25
    Congratulations to our experiemntal High Energy colleagues on being part of the collaboration receiving the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics:
  • Hao Zeng received Chancellor Award
    6/9/23
    Join us in congratulating Prof. Hao Zeng, Moti Lal Rustgi Professor, 
    to receiving the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, June 2023
  • NSF Career Award Winners
    6/8/23
    Our esteemed faculty currently include nine NSF Career award-winners.
  • Igor Zutic named SUNY Distinguished Professor
    2/6/23
    Join us in congratulating Prof. Igor Zutic to his appointment to the distinguished professor rank by the SUNY Board of Trustees on Dec. 13, 2022. See also the announcement in UBNow here.
  • Two Students Win 2022 Goldwater Scholarship
    5/9/22
    Please join us in congratulating Paul Dewan Jr. and Krish Patel on receiving the 2022 Goldwater Scholarship!
  • UB to host panel discussion on war in Ukraine
    5/5/22
    Spearheaded by Avto Kharchilava, Profesor of Physics, and Katherine Zubovich, Assistant Professor of History, a group of UB experts will host a panel discussion on May 11, 2022, 5:30pm, 109 Knox Hall.
  • Nobel laureate Whittingham to speak at UB
    5/5/22
    M. Stanley Whittingham, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will deliver the Department of Physics' 7th Ta-You Wu lecture in April 29, 2022, 5pm, NSC 225.
  • Professor Surajit Sen named 2020-2021 Jefferson Science Fellow
    9/14/20
    Congratulations to Professor Sen! From August 2020 to August 2021 he will be working full time as a science advisor at the US Agency for International Development in Washington, D.C..
  • Student Wins 2019 Goldwater Scholarship
    5/15/19
    Please join us in congratulating Hannah Seppala on receiving the 2019 Goldwater Scholarship!