NewsOctober 2024: Undergraduate FYRE students, Emma Espinosa, Ashton Matthews, Gage Spaid, and Gabriel Duncan (co-advised with Dr. Kim), joined the group. Welcome!August 26th, 2024: Jayashani passed the Qualifying exam. Congratulations!May 1st, 2024: Elim presented a poster about his research at the FYRE showcase. Well done!March 2024: Halyna was selected as one of the 2024 Outstanding Referees by the American Physical Society.August 1st, 2023: Halyna received the NSF LEAPS-MPS award.May 3rd and May 4th: Kelci presented a poster at the FYRE showcase and the Fuller prize competition, respectively. Well done!December 2022: Our largest and coolest toy, Oxford 12 T, 1.5 K-base temperature Teslatron, has arrived and is being installed.November 2022: Kelci Graville has been accepted into First Year Research Experience (FYRE) program. Kelci will learn how to use hydrogen and oxygen torch and high-temperature flux technique to grow single crystals of rare-earth containing quantum materials and study their fascinating properties. Congratulation!October 2022: Kelci Graville, a freshman undergraduate physics student, joined the group. Welcome, Kelci!August 2022: Undergraduate students Samuel Hunt (OURE), Matthew Miller, and Shawn Rottinghaus joined the group. Welcome!June 2022: Two undergraduate students, Dillon McNamara and Jacob Mizeur, joined the group. Welcome!January 1st, 2022 Dr. Halyna Hodovanets joined the Department of Physics at Missouri University of Science and Technology