Physics & Astronomy Department Home

Department Mission

Program Information & Course Catalogue

Physics Major & Minor

Astronomy at Colby

Faculty and Staff

Faculty Research

Departmental News

Physics Resources

Physics Majors

Jobs and Careers:

  • Physics Career Guide
  • American Institute of Physics Career Services
  • Career Planning Center for Beginning Scientists and Engineers

    Summer Research and Graduate School Opportunities:

  • List of NSF Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
  • Searchable guide to physics and related graduate schools

    Physics and Science News:

  • Physics Today
  • Physics Central
  • Physical Review Focus
  • Science News Online
  • Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics

    Physics Organizations:

  • American Institute of Physics
  • Institute of Physics (U.K.)
  • European Physical Society
  • Diversity in Physics
  • National Society of Black Physicists
  • National Society of Hispanics Physicists
  • The Association for Women in Science
  • APS Women in Physics Programs

    Research Facilities:

  • Hubble Space Telescope Photos
  • Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN
  • Fermilab's Home Page
  • Frontiers in Optical Coherent and Ultrafast Science (FOCUS) Physics Frontier Center
  • Center for Atomic, Molecular and Optical Science (CAMOS) at UVA

    Physics Resources and Physical Reference Data:

  • Colby College Library's Physics Resource Page
  • NIST Fundamental Physical Constants Page
  • NIST Atomic Spectra Database

    Writing Resources:

  • AIP Style Guide, 4th Edition
  • Physical Review Style and Notation Guide
  • A Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation
  • William Strunk's original The Elements of Style

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