Financial aid awards based on merit provide tuition scholarships. The Physics Department is housed in the Park Science Center with the other science departments. The physics library collection located in the Collier Science Library wing of the Science Center includes more than 5,000 monographs and 64 current journal subscriptions. There are many other relevant monographs and journals in the chemistry collection. There are many on-line and CD ROM database and search facilities available to students including a prompt interlibrary loan program.
Desktop computers are all networked, and interact with central and departmental servers.
The physics department has a range of PC s and Macintosh s available for scientific computing. Unix computers are available on Sun, Solaris and HP-UX Workstations. Several faculty members make use of supercomputing in their research through grants from national supercomputing centers such as the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. Campus-wide facilities include a Student Center with a cafe, lounge, bookstore, meeting rooms, and a modern Sports Center. The Sports Center contains an Olympic-size pool, a Fitness Center which includes Nautilus and Cybex equipment as well as treadmills, stairmasters, elliptical runners, and rowers, and a main gymnasium for volleyball, badminton and basketball.