Missouri S&T Physics

05/27/2026

Dr. Agnes Vojta is the recipient of the 2026 faculty academic advising award.
Recipients were selected based on nomination materials, student feedback and demonstrated impact on the student experience.

https://econnection.mst.edu/2026/05/academic-advising-award-recipients-announced/

05/25/2026

Celebrating CASE staff on Staff Day! Especially celebrating our wonderful Trish!

It’s Staff Day! 🎉 Thank you to all the wonderful CASE staff for the hard work. Enjoy your day!

05/16/2026

It's graduation day! Congratulations to Punit Turlapati, Lana Herkenhoff, TJ McDermott, Andrew Madsen, Andrew Miget, Mason Brown, Braden Stillmaker, Gavin Jones, and Rem Nguyen (not pictured) who are graduating with a BS in Physics; Lana and TJ with an emphasis in Secondary Education.
Three of our graduates completed double majors: Braden in Applied Mathematics, Gavin and Punit in Computer Science. We are proud of our graduates and wish them the best for the future!

05/11/2026

Double congratulations to Dr. Simeon Mistakidis, assistant professor of physics! Simeon received the Missouri S&T College of Arts, Sciences, and Education Research Award, and he won a major grant from the Atomic and Molecular Physics sector of the Army Research Office (ARO) for a project titled “Quantum simulation of multi-component droplets: Many-body phases and correlated non-equilibrium dynamics.”

05/11/2026

Physics graduate student Farhana Bristy has been selected as a Student Ambassador for the American Physical Society (APS) for the term 2026-27.
As an ambassador, she will serve as a liaison between APS and fellow students by sharing resources, promoting programs, and helping strengthen the connection between APS and physics students on campus.

05/08/2026

The results of the 2026 Fuller Prize competition for undergraduate research have been announced:
First prize was awarded to Elijah Brakensiek for his work on Generation of Dipolar Supersolids through a Barrier Sweep in Droplet Lattices (advisor: Dr. Simeon Mistakidis).
Second prize was awarded to Ashton Matthews for his project Single Crystals of Novel Materials and their Transport Properties (advisor: Dr. Halyna Hodovanets).
Third prizes were awarded to Jacob Harl for his research on Generation of Quantum Vortices in Dipolar Supersolids (advisor: Dr. Simeon Mistakidis) and to Andrew Miget for his project From Damage to Self-Healing: Ab Initio Simulations of 100-eV Alpha-Particle Impact on Amorphous In-Ga-O Structure (advisor: Dr. Julia Medvedeva).
Congratulations to the winners! Thanks to all presenters, their advisors, and the Fuller prize committee for the efforts judging the contributions!

05/07/2026

Fuller Competition going on in the physics building until 5pm!

05/07/2026

Our physics majors are ready to present their research at the department's Fuller Competition. Judges are Drs. Musser, Katsimiga, and Yamilov.
Come over to the physics building to see their posters, 3:30 to 5pm.