The BC Physics Department is rebuilding its research program, particularly in the area of experimental condensed matter physics.  There have been three new hires in the last five years in the areas of nanofabrication, materials, and photonics, covering a wide selection of material systems from semiconductor interfaces, wide band-gap materials, narrow gap materials, oxide nanostructures and other material systems. Our faculty and research staff have acquired, are in the process of acquiring, or have access to a host of experimental facilities, including laser spectroscopy, modulation spectroscopy, ultrafast spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), confocal microscopy, molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), physical vapor deposition (PVD), scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), scanning probe microscopy (SPM), scanning Kelvin probe microscopy (SKPM), thermal conductivity microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), x-ray diffraction (XRD), Auger electron spectroscopy (AES), low energy electron diffraction (LEED), ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS), device processing, variable temperature current-voltage/capacitance-voltage characterization, device simulations, etc. In addition, we have efforts in environmental science and quantal density functional theory that have long been in place.