Swarthmore College Department of Physics and Astronomy

Academic Program

• Physics courses offered
• Astronomy courses offered
• Sophomore paper guidelines
• Comps guidelines
• New honors guidelines and thesis writing schedule

Mentoring/grading opportunities

• Science Associate (SA) application
• Science Associate (SA) reference form
• Application to be a grader

Colloquium-related

• Pre-colloquium talks for students

Research Opportunities

• General information
• The schedule for Summer 2008
• The College's summer fellowship information and application
• Off-campus facilities
• Listing of REU sites for summer research off-campus
• Student reviews of REU sites
• HHMI student travel funding
• Sigma Xi travel funding

Graduate School and Careers

• Deadlines and Advice about preparing to apply to graduate school
• Fellowship opportunities

 

Swarthmore Women in Astronomy and Physics

Post-Swat Resource

(maintained by Robin Smith '03)

Students always have the opportunity to have a (free) lunch at Tarble with the colloquium speaker on the day of the colloquium. Sign up in the department office.