physics
Lights, lasers, Nobel Prize
Two physics faculty members will present “Tools of Light,” a lecture about the 2018 Nobel Prize for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics, 4-5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, in Room 104 of Physics Building. Refreshments will be served at 3:40 p.m.
Read More »18 faculty receive tenure, promotions
Eighteen faculty members at Missouri S&T received promotions or tenure effective Sept. 1. The faculty members are:
Read More »Topology seminar meets twice weekly
Missouri S&T’s topology seminar meets 3-5 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays each week. The seminar is held in Room G4 Rolla Building on Mondays and Room 103 Centennial Hall on Wednesdays. Feel free to join the seminar, which is often focused on continuum theory.
Read More »Educational research mini-grants awarded to five faculty projects
Expanding the sophomore design curriculum for aerospace engineering students and maximizing the co-op experience are a couple of topics faculty will be researching with the help of mini-grant funding. The Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) recently provided nearly $25,000 in mini-grant funding for the following projects:
Read More »Recent graduate earns Fulbright grant to teach in Russia
Owen Smith, a 2017 physics graduate, has received a Fulbright scholarship grant to study in Russia from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Smith will be an English-language teaching assistant at a Russian university for the academic year from September 2018 to June 2019.
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Students inducted into physics honors society
Missouri S&T’s Sigma Pi Sigma, the honors society for the Society of Physics Students, welcomed new undergraduate student members during a ceremony April 4. Inductees are:
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Dr. Barbara Hale retires
After 46 years of teaching and research in the physics department at Missouri S&T, Dr. Barbara N. Hale has retired. In 1973, Hale was one of the first two women to join the Missouri S&T physics faculty. The physics department honored Hale with a retirement celebration in early March. Read more.
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S&T faculty receive grants for affordable, open educational resources
Six Missouri S&T faculty are working to help students save money on textbooks with grants from the University of Missouri System. The grants are provided through the UM System Affordable & Open Educational Resources (A&OER) initiative. The program encourages faculty experimentation and innovation in finding new, better and less costly ways to deliver learning materials to students. The grants are awarded for three levels of costs and cost savings. The levels and S&T faculty recipients are:
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Three physics students win Schearer Prize
Basu Lamichhane, Chandra Adhikari and Ahmed Ibrahim are winners of the 2017 Schearer Prize, awarded at the Missouri S&T physics department’s annual graduate research competition. The award is named in memory of Laird D. Schearer, the department’s first Curators’ Distinguished Professor of physics.
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Vojta named chair of physics
Dr. Thomas Vojta, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of physics, has been named chair of the physics department. His appointment becomes effective Monday, Jan. 1.
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