Mizzou Physics and Astronomy Graduate Student Association

03/01/2026

Columbia Young Scientists Expo 2026

02/04/2026

Join us on February 12th for good times and a great movie ☕️🎦🍿

01/30/2026

Bowling our way into 2026 with good vibes and gutter balls 🎳💕

This year’s first PAGSA Bowling Night was held on January 27th, 2026 at Level Up Entertainment.

03/15/2025

This award is dedicated to honoring 18 University of Missouri graduate and professional students in the last year of their degree eligibility.

09/29/2024

Congratulations to our own Dr. Jared Williams for successfully defending his PhD thesis titled: “Time Dependent Exciton Dynamics: Insights From 1- and 2-Dimensional Model Systems”

07/17/2024

Mizzou Physics and Astronomy graduates Dr. Ryan Smith and Dr. Dylan Weaver have recently published the results of their collaborative work titled “Chain-Length Dependence of Peptide–Lipid Bilayer Interaction Strength and Binding Kinetics: A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Approach”.

You can find the paper here:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c01218 #

Physical interactions between polypeptide chains and lipid membranes underlie critical cellular processes. Yet, despite fundamental importance, key mechanistic aspects of these interactions remain elusive. Bulk experiments have revealed a linear relationship between free energy and peptide chain len...

06/13/2024

Congratulations to Dr. Randy Burns on the successful defense of his dissertation titled “Structural and Electronic Properties of Hybrid Halide Perovskites: Insights Into Chemical V***r Deposited Films”.

06/12/2024

The study advances our understanding of how galaxies were formed.

05/08/2024

Mizzou Physics and Astronomy Graduate students Dominic Dalba, Bipin Bhattarai, Dilan Gamachchi, and Indeewari Karunarathne published their research article titled "Effect of ZnO Interfacial Seed Layer in Sol–Gel Grown ZnMgO Ferroelectric" in ACS Applied Electronic Materials.
You can find their article here:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsaelm.4c00281

05/07/2024