"Physics is a liberal arts education
for a technological society"
-J. M. Pimbley

It might be best to call it "the fundamentals", rather than "physics": Learning these fundamentals well extends students' horizons significantly beyond the confines of any one discipline. We teach fundamental concepts and tools, in small classes and through individual projects, to students who become physicists  or engineers (of all sorts) or chemists or biologists or materials scientists  or.... Ultimately, our program is about learning how to learn and how to communicate that learning. Toward that end, we expect that our students will incorporate a significant experiential element (ideally one involving research) into their undergraduate majors.

Contact Us

Narendra Jaggi, Chair
Physics Department
Illinois Wesleyan University
PO Box 2900
Bloomington, IL 61702

Phone: (309) 556-3418
Fax: (309) 556-3864
e-mail: njaggi@iwu.edu