Swarthmore College Department of Physics and Astronomy

Academic Program

• Physics courses offered
• Astronomy courses offered
• Sophomore paper guidelines
• Comps guidelines
• 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
• We sometimes have a meeting between students and the speaker after the talk; let Catherine know if you're interested in meeting with our next speaker.

Research Opportunities

• General information
• The application schedule for summer 2009
• The College's summer fellowship information and application
• Off-campus facilities
• Listing of REU sites for summer research off-campus
• HHMI student travel funding
• Sigma Xi travel funding

Graduate School and Careers

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

 

Swarthmore Women in Astronomy and Physics

Post-Swat Resource

(maintained by Robin Smith '03)