From Nanometers in Size to Giga-Lightyears Away: Find your future at UMKC
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UMKC Physics & Astronomy: Stretch your creative scientific spirit while enjoying a classic college campus within a major metropolitan center.
Why Study Physics?
“Physics is crucial to understanding the world around us, the world inside us, and the world beyond us. It is the most basic and fundamental science.”
— American Physical Society
Why Study Astronomy?
“… astronomers must apply equal measures of analytic thinking and imagination, logic and intuition, to answer the most fundamental questions about the cosmos …” — American Astronomical Society
Undergraduate Profile:
"UMKC is a friendly, warm, and multicultural place for life-long learning." -- Cemile Arabaci, Honors College BS in Physics expected 2021
Cemile is one of our international students and her hometown is Çanakkale, Turkey. Now she is doing undergraduate research in the Lab of Curators' Prof. Wai-Yim Ching on the electronic structure and properties of complex materials.
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Graduate Student Profile:
"The Department of Physics and Astronomy is a place where the professors care and also challenge you to work harder than you have before." -- Jeff Scully, BS in Physics expected 2020
Jeff is a non-traditional student who has returned to classes after a career in the construction industry. While studying physics he is also participating in it by doing experimental materials research in the Caruso group. This is just the kind of experience he wants to be equipped with when he graduates.
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