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Welcome to the UMKC Department of Physics

Welcome to the UMKC Department of Physics. We offer B.S., B.A., M.S. degrees and participate in the iPh.D. program. Our students benefit from faculty dedicated to their education and small class sizes. Faculty research programs include physics education research, astronomy and many areas within condensed matter physics.

Department News & Events

Feb 08

Prof. McIntosh's Ask an Astrophysicist for high-school science club in Parkville, MO
Feb 06

Physics welcomes Webelos on Wheels for a fun-filled day of science!
Feb 05

Prof. McIntosh presents A Roadmap to a Career in Astronomy or Physics at Mathematics & Physics Institute for Independence, MO students
Feb 05

Physics Colloquium (Flarsheim 310, coffee at 3:15pm)
Prof. Donald Priour (UMKC) "Thermally excited ripples in two dimensional crystals with
localized bonding"

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Feb 01

Prof. Caruso has received a $300,000 award from the Navy for a project entitled High Efficiency Solid State Neutron Detector
Feb 01

Prof. Wrobel will receive the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching - the ceremony will be held Feb. 15 (see invitation)
Feb 01

Prof. McIntosh has received a Single Investigator Cottrell College Science Award of $42,988 from the Research Corporation for a project entitled Catching Galaxy Evolution in the Act: Mining the SDSS for New Merger-formed Spheroid Galaxies
Jan 29

UMKC Physics Spring 2010 semester greeting.
We welcome new graduate students Ruth Schukman-Dakotas & Joe Decappo, and new undergraduate students Justin Mann & Burla Travis.
We offer a new introductory astronomy course: Physics 150. Also, we offer new on-line versions of Physics 210, 220, 250.
Jan 22

The SPS build cloud chambers - photos and video
Jan 22

Physics Colloquium (Flarsheim 310, coffee at 3:15pm)
Prof. Yanchun Zhou (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang) "Structure Properties and Application Challenges of Damage Tolerant Layered Ternary Carbides and Nitrides (MAX Phases)"
Jan 15

Physics major Jennifer Nielsen has received the Don and Lucille Armacost Scholarship and the K. F. Cheng Physics Department Scholarship
Jan 13

Physics professor directs attention to universe. (read more)
Dec 23

Prof. McIntosh on The Walt Bodine Show (KCUR 89.3 FM) talking about the search for exoplanets
Dec 04

Physics Colloquium (Flarsheim 310, coffee at 3:15pm)
Prof. Angela Speck (U. Missouri-Columbia) "Cosmochemistry & Astromineralogy: from the Big Bang to Life"

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Oct 23

Prof. McIntosh will present the lecture When Galaxies Collide! at the Shepherd Center Adventures in Learning series (9am)
Oct 17

Prof. McIntosh is the invited speaker at this year's Heart of America Star Party (4:45pm)
Sep 30

Physics Colloquium (3pm, Haag 313) Gopal K. Pradhan (JNCASR, Bangalore, India) - Pressure induced phonon freezing in Zn(1-x)Be(x)Se ternary alloy

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Sep 24

Prof. McIntosh on The Walt Bodine Show (KCUR 89.3 FM) talking about the newly dressed-up Hubble Space Telescope
Sep 23

Prof. McIntosh's publication on Structural properties of central galaxies in groups and clusters published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astromical Society, vol. 398

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