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A. Anil Kumar, Ph.D., Head
Department of Physics
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E-mail: aakumar@pvamu.edu
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What do Physicists do? 

What can You do with a Degree in Physics?

  • Test and track space satellites for NASA
  • Serve as officers in the Navy nuclear submarine program
  • Work on Homeland Security
  • Design and fabricate electronic and optical devices
  • Be a health/radiation physicist/technician in a hospital
  • Be a Patent Attorney
  • Work as a Geophysicist
  • Develop a career in Meteorology
  • Be a developer and seller of computer modeling and simulation software such as flight simulation
  • Become a journalist in science
  • Teach in schools, colleges and universities
  • Manage a division/corporation
  • Be an environmental science expert
  • Create materials for the World Wide Web
  • And much, much more!