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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. |
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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) |
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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.
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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.
(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
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TV
newscast story by ScienCentralNEWS on the
bioprinting work of MU Physics Professor Gabor Forgacs.
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| 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
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52nd
MIDWEST
SOLID STATE CONFERENCE
October
8-9, 2005
Hosted
by the Department of Physics and Astronomy
University
of Missouri Columbia
Columbia,
MO 65211
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| 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.
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| 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...) |
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