You will learn in small classes with faculty members who know you as an individual, meaning you’ll get one-on-one encouragement, personal direction and research opportunities suited to your needs. Lab work will be central to your studies, and as a senior physics major, you will conduct an in-depth research project. Senior projects often produce work that is presented at conferences or published in journals.
Joelle Baer ’16 spent her summer interning at the National Institute for Standards and Technology’s Center for Nuclear Research.
After a summer of reflection, Joelle Baer ’16 started Hamilton College knowing math and science were her deepest interests. Her love for physics was a surprise. “That freshman mechanics course with Gordon Jones completely blew me away - everything I had taken for granted about the world around me was being explained right before my very eyes. The class was enthralling, the problems exciting, the professor entertaining. I was completely sold on the major,” says Baer, who went on to a summer internship at the National Institute for Standards and Technology’s Center for Nuclear Research.
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Stephanie Higgins Bealing ’04 presenting at a Hartford Young Professionals and Entrepreneurs Awards ceremony, just before she won an award.
Since her Hamilton College days, physics major Stephanie Higgins Bealing ’04 has earned two advanced degrees and launched two businesses. “Studying physics definitely prepared me for all of the problem solving that is needed when you run your own show,” she says.
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Hamilton graduates who concentrated in physics are pursuing careers in a variety of fields, including:
