Department News

Alex Klotz Wins 2021 Mayfield Award

CNSM students voted this year to bestow the Mayfield Award for outstanding teaching in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics to Dr. Alex Klotz.

Ask a Physicist: How Does Santa's Sleigh Fly?

Dr. Thomas Gredig and Dr. Galen Pickett discuss the physics of how Santa keeps his sleigh in flight and how he manages to get to all of the world's children in one night.

Daniel Diaz, CSULB APS Bridge Program student gets his Ph.D.

Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Diaz who completed his Ph.D. at CERN in Switzerland. Daniel was part of the very first APS Bridge Program cohort and started our Master's program in Fall 2014.

Alumnus Aaron Schwartz Offered Position at Cypress

Alumnus Aaron Schwartz has been offered full-time faculty position at Cypress Community College. Aaron follows the steps of several other CSULB Physics and Astronomy alumni who joined the faculty at various community colleges. Congratulations, Aaron!

Thomas Gredig Receives 2020 CNSM Award for Excellence

Dr. Thomas Gredig is one of the recipients of the 2020 "Pretty Darn Good Professor" Award from the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. We congratulate Dr. Gredig on this well deserved award!

Congratulations Graduates!

Congratulations to our graduating class of 2020! We join you in celebrating this milestone in your life. You have shown incredible resolve and persistence, and we are extremely proud of each one of you.

2020 IGEN APS Google Bridge Fellowships

Google Inc. has partnered with the Physics and Astronomy Department to offer two full two-year Google Bridge Fellowships via the IGEN APS Bridge Program. CSU Long Beach is one of only 6 national Bridge Sites of the American Physical Society.

Dr. Klotz Explores Parasite DNA and How It Can Treat Diseases

Dr. Alex Klotz has published a paper in the Proceedings of Natural Academy of Sciences (PNAS) highlighting his exploration of parasite DNA. He is hopeful that his work will potentially aid in the diagnosis of tropical diseases. 

Dr. Ojeda-Aristizabal research featured in MRS Bulletin

Dr. Claudia Ojeda-Aristizabal's research on molecular solids was featured in the MRS Bulletin article titled "Photoemission spectroscopy reveals complex character of buckyball thin film."

Grad Student Megan Barry Receives 2019 Kennedy Reed Award

M.S. Physics student Megan Barry received the 2019 Kennedy Reed Award for Best Theoretical Research by a Graduate Student from the APS Far West Section for her talk "Identifying the Quark-Hadron Phase Transition in Neutron Stars with g-modes."

PhysTEC Trains Students in Physics Teaching

The Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) project is designed to improve and promote the education of future physics and physical science teachers.

Department Welcomes New Faculty Alex Klotz

Our latest addition to the Physics and Astronomy Department faculty is Alexander (Alex) Raphael Klotz. His research focus is interdisciplinary, at the interface of soft condensed matter and biophysics.