A bit of history and some facts about our department are available in our General Information section. Thesis may be written in absentia . The department has also joined the Magellan Project to build twin 6.5-meter telescopes in Chile. For instruction, there is a new 0.4 meter Richtey-Chretien telescope on campus. The department operates its own image processing system consisting of a cluster of Sun computers.
Graduate students have access to all telescopes and instruments.
The combined total of full-time faculty in the three professional ranks is 14. For admission to the grauate programs, a Bachelor's degree is required with a minimum undergraduate GPA of 3.0 specified. An undergraduate major in physics, mathematics, or astronomy is assumed. The GRE is required. No minimum acceptable score specified.