{"id":324,"date":"2010-01-14T13:46:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T18:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/?page_id=324"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:33:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:33:41","slug":"geneva-physics-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/geneva-programs\/geneva-physics-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva Physics Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Boston University\u2019s Geneva Physics Program, in cooperation with CERN and the University of Geneva (UNIGE), brings students directly to the cutting edge of modern physics.<\/p>\n<p>With classes at the UNIGE and directed research at the CERN Laboratory, straddling the French\/Swiss border just outside of Geneva, students will work with the world\u2019s leading physicists to explore the universe on the level of its most basic constituent particles.<\/p>\n<p>The first six weeks of the program will be dedicated to an intensive French language course, and the Undergraduate Physics Seminar. When the UNIGE semester begins in mid-February, students will enroll in two UNIGE physics courses as well as a directed study at CERN.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8469\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8469\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/geneva\/files\/2020\/06\/ProtoDune.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/geneva\/files\/2020\/06\/ProtoDune-636x358.jpg\" alt=\"A group of 11 BU Physics students are photographed inside the CERN facility. All are wearing hard hats.\" width=\"636\" height=\"358\" class=\"wp-image-8469 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/files\/2020\/06\/ProtoDune-636x358.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/files\/2020\/06\/ProtoDune-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/files\/2020\/06\/ProtoDune-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/files\/2020\/06\/ProtoDune-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/files\/2020\/06\/ProtoDune-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Physics students at CERN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span>Upon successful completion of the program students can earn 19 Boston University credits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/arts-sciences\/2025\/tiny-particles-big-discoveries\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/geneva\/files\/2025\/12\/SP25-Physics-article-photo-636x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"293\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/files\/2025\/12\/SP25-Physics-article-photo-636x293.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/files\/2025\/12\/SP25-Physics-article-photo-1024x471.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/files\/2025\/12\/SP25-Physics-article-photo-768x353.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/files\/2025\/12\/SP25-Physics-article-photo-1536x706.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/files\/2025\/12\/SP25-Physics-article-photo-2048x942.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click the photo above or this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/arts-sciences\/2025\/tiny-particles-big-discoveries\/\">link<\/a> to read more about the Spring 2025 Physics students and their research.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>For further information on the Physics Program click on the link below:<\/p>\n<article id=\"post-4\" class=\"content-area post-4 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/abroad\/programs\/geneva-physics-program\/\" class=\"button\">Learn more about the Geneva Physics program<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University\u2019s Geneva Physics Program, in cooperation with CERN and the University of Geneva (UNIGE), brings students directly to the cutting edge of modern physics. With classes at the UNIGE and directed research at the CERN Laboratory, straddling the French\/Swiss border just outside of Geneva, students will work with the world\u2019s leading physicists to explore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2334,"featured_media":0,"parent":6870,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9755,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324\/revisions\/9755"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geneva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}