Physics and Astronomy faculty, staff, and students provide outreach to campus and communities throughout Missouri.

During the 2023 and 2024 solar ecilpses, faculty and graduate students set up viewing stations on Lowry Mall with telescopes and eclipse glasses during each event, with a 60% partial view of the November 2023 annular solar eclipse and an almost 95% totality experience for the April 8 2024 total eclipse.  

Graduate students Alec Martin, Charles Mentzer, Bangzheng Sun, and Bo Yang traveled to the path of totality in southern Missouri to set up telescopes and provide information at the Eleven Point State Park for nearly 250 visitors. Teja Teppla reached nearly 1,000 visitors at a fair in Poplar Bluff.