Dr. Marco Cavaglià has been named chair of the physics department, effective Monday, Aug. 3. He takes over the position from Dr. Thomas Vojta, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of physics, who is returning to a faculty position after serving as chair since 2018.
Read More »Congratulations to the winners and nominees of this year’s Experiential Learning, Service Learning and I Love Your Class awards.
Read More »To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first detection of gravitational waves, physics will host a public lecture about the topic and its connection to black holes. The lecture will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, in Hasselmann Alumni House. The event is free and open to the public.
Read More »Dr. Hasti Khoraminezhad, a post-doctoral fellow in physics, Dr. Marco Cavaglia, professor of physics, and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory research group received the physics department’s 2024 Outreach Award.
Read More »Four faculty members at Missouri S&T were honored with the Post Tenure Review Excellence Award. This award is granted to faculty who excel in scholarship and teaching through the five-year review period after achieving tenure. The recipients are:
Read More »Missouri S&T celebrated faculty excellence at an awards banquet Dec. 8 on campus. Honorees include:
Read More »Dr. Marco Cavaglia, has been re-elected co-chair of the Burst Sources Working Group of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration for an additional two-year term.
Read More »Recipients of Missouri S&T’s Faculty Excellence Award, Faculty Achievement Award and Faculty Teaching Award have been announced. Awardees are:
Read More »Dr. Marco Cavaglia, professor of physics, and Dr. Shun Saito, assistant professor of physics, will present a public lecture about the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, via Zoom. Their lecture is titled “Black Holes and the Milky Way’s Darkest Secret.
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