physics

27 faculty honored for excellence in teaching, research, service

Posted by on December 1, 2020

Recipients of Missouri S&T’s Faculty Excellence Award, Faculty Achievement Award and Faculty Teaching Award have been announced. Awardees are:

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S&T professor among world’s most highly cited researchers

Posted by on December 1, 2020

Dr. Yew San Hor, associate professor of physics, has been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2020 list from Clarivate.

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See all the cites in PLOS database

Posted by on December 1, 2020

Over 60 current and past Missouri S&T faculty members are represented in the database “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators,” published in the open access journal PLOS (The Public Library of Science) Biology.

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Today: Learn about black holes, Milky Way’s darkest secret

Posted by on November 19, 2020

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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S&T researchers add to gravitational wave catalog

Posted by on November 3, 2020

Six researchers from Missouri S&T’s Institute for Multi-messenger Astrophysics and Cosmology are among the authors of an updated catalog of 50 gravitational wave detections .

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Nobel Prize winner to give physics colloquium

Posted by on November 2, 2020

Dr. Rainer Weiss, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics, will present a talk titled “Beginnings of Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Current State and Future” at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5.

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Kummer Institute Research Advisory Committee announced

Posted by on November 2, 2020

An advisory committee focused on research has been created for the Kummer Institute for Student Success, Research and Economic Development. Committee members include:

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International research team detects binary black hole merger

Posted by on October 6, 2020

Researchers from Missouri S&T’s Institute for Multi-messenger Astrophysics and Cosmology are among a team of international scientists who participated in the detection of a signal from the most massive black hole merger yet observed in gravitational waves. The S&T researchers include:

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In the news: As It Ought to Be, Campus Technology, CNN, NY Magazine, TheList.com, St. Louis Public Radio, Wall Street Journal

Posted by on October 6, 2020

Dr. Agnes Vojta, teaching professor of physics, discusses her recent volume of poetry, The Eden of Perhaps, in an interview with Chase Dimrock of As It Ought to Be magazine.

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S&T faculty receive tenure, promotion

Posted by on September 1, 2020

Twenty-four Missouri S&T faculty members received promotions or tenure effective today (Tuesday, Sept. 1). The faculty members are:

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