About Us

History

The Physics Department

The University and the Physics Department was founded in 1948 by Royal Charter to provide higher education in the then British colonies of the Caribbean.

The Physics department at Mona occupies a large group of buildings in the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences. Most of the space is occupied by teaching, research and computer laboratories; class-rooms and offices. There is also a library, prototyping shops, and other back-up facilities for research. At the old Cable and Wireless station at Stony Hill, a facility is kept by the Department which includes a 22" optical telescope
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Facilities

Computing Facilities

The Physics Department has a large local area network running Windows 9x, WindowsME, Windows NT and Solaris. The Department has several PCs, along with two Fujitsu ICL multiprocessing NT servers and a number of Unix Servers and workstations dedicated to both research and undergraduate programs.