Research at the Department of Physics Physics Research at URI Graduate studies in physics at URI began in 1949, when the department was first authorized to grant master's degrees. The doctoral program was started in 1964. The department has active research programs in a broad range of areas. Each research program is headed by a faculty member.
Some programs have overlapping components because of intra-departmental collaborations.
The research areas are listed on this page. For additional information, follow the links to webpages maintained by the researcher. Low temperature physics. Low temperature physics. Optics and Acoustics.