Department of Physics and Astronomy, UMC

IN THE NEWS

Michael Mayo: Honorable Mention, Donald K. Anderson Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, Graduate School, U. Missouri; April 21, 2009. (more)

Jacob Burress: Donald K. Anderson Graduate Research Assistant Award, Graduate School, U. Missouri; April 21, 2009. (more)

Jhuma Das: Honorable Mention, Life Sciences Week Research Competition, U. Missouri; April 17, 2009 (more)

Prof. Robert Duncan, Vice Chancellor for Research appeared on CBS News 60 Minutes, April 19, 2009. (more)

Prof. Angela Speck received an Honorable Mention, MU Excellence in Advising Award, Office of the Provost, U. Missouri; April 16, 2009.

Prof. Carsten Ullrich is among the 360 Outstanding Referees for 2009, a lifetime award chosen by the American Physical Society from 42,000 active referees for Physical Review and Physical Review Letters; April 4, 2009. (more)

Prof. Suchi Guha has received an Honorable Mention, Graduate Faculty Mentor Award, Graduate School, U. Missouri; March 27, 2009.

Prof. Gabor Forgacs was named Fellow of the American Physical Society, March 16, 2009 (more)

Prof. Emeritus Samuel Werner was named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Feburary 14, 2009. (more)

Congratulations to Prof. Kattesh Katti on been named a Curators' Professor, "in recognition of his exemplary service to the University of Missouri and his recognition at an international level for his ground breaking discoveries in nanoscience, and nanotechnology and their applications to nanomedicine."

Congratulations to Prof. Kattesh Katti on the Honorary Doctorate of Science he was awarded by Karnatak University, India, on January 21, for his contributions to nanoscience and its application to medical and environmental research.

Physics Leaders Meeting: October 10, 2008

Prof. Frederick Hawthorne receives American Chemical Society highest honor: the 2009 Priestley Medal for his achievements in the field of chemistry. (more details)

Prof. Angela Speck is the recipient of Provost Outstanding Junior Faculty Research and Creative Activity Award for 2008.

Prof. Deborah Hanuscin is the recipient of the Provost's Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award for 2008.

Prof. Ping Yu has won the prestigious CAREER AWARD in the Biophotonics Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Curators’ Distinguished Professor Giovanni Vignale of Physics and Astronomy, as part of a 6.5 million dollar grant, will research nano-magnetic devices. (Details)

Prof. Dorina Kosztin is one of five winners of the prestigious William Kemper award for excelence in teaching. She is our third Kemper winner, others being Prof. Meera Chandrasekhar and Prof. Paul Miceli. (details)

Kattesh Katti, professor of radiology and physics and senior research scientist at the MU Research Reactor, was honored on Tuesday, March 4, with the Outstanding Missourian Award for his work in treating cancer.

Jeff Pobst's poster on "High Capacity Storage of Alternative Fuels through Adsorption on Nanoporous Carbon for use in Vehicles." has been accepted to the 2008 Posters on the Hill. (more)

The Board of Curators and the acting MU System President Gordon Lamb recently named Professor Sashi Satpathy a Curators’ Professor. (read more)

Dr. Peter Pfeifer has been awarded a 2007 Gold Chalk Award, which is an annual award nominated by graduate students and given to professors who have exhibited excellence in teaching and mentoring of graduate students.

St. Louis Academy of Science recognizes Prof. Kattesh Katti for groundbreaking contributions to science.

Prof. Carsten Ullrich is the recipient of the Provost Outstanding Junior Faculty Research and Creative Activity Award.

Assistant Professor Angela Speck, Physics and Astronomy, has won the prestigious CAREER AWARD in the Astronomy and Astrophysics division of the National Science Foundation (NSF)

Peter Pfeifer, Physics and Astronomy, and partners: New automotive gas tank holds promise for future.

Common ingredient in food can stabilize gold nanoparticles for medical use, finds Kattesh Katti, Physics, and colleagues.

James Fergason, pioneer in the study of modern liquid crystal display, gives portion of prize money to MU Physics .

O.M. Stewart Colloquium
Monday, March 12, 2007
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Testing the Limits of Quantum Mechanics: Motivation, State of Play, Prospects - Sir Anthony Leggett, 2003 Nobel Laureate in Physics (additional info)

Special Public Lecture

Tuesday, March 13, 2007
7:00 – 8:00 PM
Monsanto Auditorium, Life Science Building

Why can’t time run backwards? - Sir Anthony Leggett, 2003 Nobel Laureate in Physics (additional info)

Prof. Giovanni Vignale was recently named a Curators' Professor by a unanimous vote of the MU Board of Curators.(more...)

Prof Meera Chandrasekhar is leading the Summer Academy for A TIME for Physics First - a program to help science teachers introduce physics in 9th grade.

bubble lab

(Read more about it in the Columbia Daily Tribune, KSHB News, MU News, KOMU - click on "CLICK TO WATCH VIDEO ON DEMAND" to see a short videoclip of the program)

Prof. Peter Pfeifer's ALL-CRAFT Team (Alliance for Collaborative Research in Alternative Fuel Technology), which is developing storage technologies for the natural gas fuel tank of the future, has been in the newspapers and on TV and radio recently.

Prof. Meera Chandrasekhar receives the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Prof. Paul Miceli wins the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence (read more...)

Professor Shufeng Zhang was elected an APS Fellow for his pioneering theoretical models and analysis of spin transport in magnetic systems

TV newscast story by ScienCentralNEWS on the bioprinting work of MU Physics Professor Gabor Forgacs.

Prof. Kattesh Katti was awarded the prestigious Gauss Professorship by the Göttingen Academy of Arts and Sciences in Germany, for the 2005-2006 year.

$3 Million Awarded to MU for Research That Could Result in Early Detection of Cancer Cells

52^nd MIDWEST SOLID STATE CONFERENCE
October 8-9, 2005

Hosted by the Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Missouri Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211

PHYSICS LEADERS' MEETING

MU Research Team Awarded Nearly $5 Million to Study Biological Self-Assembly

Physics professor Carsten Ullrich, one of few to earn CAREER Award

STUDENT CLOSE-UP: Basil Menzi Mchunu

Physics Open House - article in the Columbia Missourian

Alliance for Collaborative Research in Alternative Fuel Technology-ALL-CRAFT - News

Congratulations to:

Kyle Gustaffson (MU physics graduate) who received the Hertz Fellowship Award.

Dr. Wouter Montfrooij who received the Excellence in Education Award.

Dr. Dorina Kosztin who received the Provost Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award.

Hakim Meskine who received the Graduate Student Association Superior Graduate Achievement Award.

Michael Gramlich who won the New Focus Student Travel grant to go to CLEO/QELS where he will present a paper titled "Optimizing two-wave mixing efficiency in photorefractive quantum wells by selective angle tuning".

Matt Simpson (advisor Hak Taub) who was named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar

Mike Forney (advisor Ioan Kosztin) who received the Life Sciences Undergraduate Research Scholarship and was also accepted in the Undergraduate Research Mentorship Program.

Winning an uphill battle - Physical review focus

MU Researchers Produce Nanoparticles to Aid Medical Diagnosis, Therapy in Fraction of Previous Time

Two physics undergraduate students, Matt Simpson (advisor Hak Taub) and Chris Volz (advisor Ioan Kosztin) were awarded the MU Undergraduate Research Scholarship for the 2004-2005 academic year. Congratulations to those students!

Series aim to polish science's image.(see article in the Missourian)

Prof. Shi-Jie Chen received the Provost Outstanding Junior Faculty Research and Creative Activity Award.

The University of Missouri Board of Curators approved the appointment of Meera Chandrasekhar, professor of physics and astronomy, as a Distinguished Teaching Professor.

Prof. Ping Yu's recent work in optical coherence imaging (OCI) on tumor tissue was reported in Physics Today (Physics Today, vol. 56, p.9, September 2003) and Science (Science, vol. 301, p.568, 1 August 2003).

Prof. Meera Chandrasekhar is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Prof. Gabor Forgacs' work with organ engineering is an excellent example of how current interdisciplinary research in the life sciences may have a profound impact on future generations. Forgacs, a biological physicist at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is an integral part of a research team that ultimately plans to build organs in laboratories for the purpose of human transplantation. (more...)