Mathematics and Physics Department Records

Record Group — Multiple Containers

Identifier: UA-05-A23

Staff Only

The Math and Physics department records includes materials made by and pertaining to the current department and its precursors from 1949-2009. The majority of the materials fall from 1970-2005 with particular emphasis on the 1980's. Materials include department minutes, departmental reports, correspondence, promotional fliers and photographs, and materials concerning guest lectures. There are also a number of print-outs from the departments' past websites, and some papers concerning the engineering partnership program with the University of Minnesota.

Dates

1905-2015

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

About the Department of Math and Physics

The Department of Mathematics and Physics was originally two separate departments. Physics was then combined with Chemistry from the 1920s to 1940s, after which it became its own department again. In the 1960s and 1970s the teaching of physics was largely transferred to the College St. Thomas, and though some classes remained at the College of St. Catherine it did not have a full department. With the invention of computers the Department of Mathematical Sciences began offering classes in computer functions and programming, which its successor continues. In 2013 Mathematics and Physics were formally united into the Department of Mathematics and Physics.