Swarthmore College Department of Physics and Astronomy


Research Facilities

Each faculty member has a lab in the Science Center. Experimentalists Crouch, Grossman, and Moscatelli have their labs on the ground level of the Science Center, directly below the Eldridge Commons, while Brown and Collings have theirs on the first floor of the department, down the hall from the department office. The theorists, Boccio and Bug, and astrophysicists, Cohen and Jensen, have computer rooms/labs on the first floor of the department as well.

We are planning for a 24-inch telescope (with a high-resolution spectrograph) on the rooftop observing deck of the Science Center. We currently have an array of 8-inch telescopes mounted on piers on the observing deck. These are used mainly for teaching labs. The historic Sproul refractor is still in operation, and is used for the monthly telescope open houses for the public.

Off-Campus Facilities Used by Swarthmore Faculty and Students