Jeremy Lusk

I’m an assistant professor of physics at the University of Central Arkansas and the faculty advisor for both our SPS and Sigma Pi Sigma chapters.

I first got involved with SPS as a freshman at UCA (where I now work.) SPS provided me with an instant community of folks who were excited about physics and wanted to share that excitement with the world. Through SPS, I got my first chance to teach people about physics through our outreach and engagement activities and I’ve never really stopped since then.

In graduate school at the University of Oklahoma, I helped co-found an organization called Lunar Sooners to do astronomy outreach around the state, and hosted dozens of star parties and public talks with my fellow graduate students. When I started a full-time teaching job at Midland College in Midland, TX I served as one of the faculty mentors for the engineering club.

At UCA, I took on the role as faculty mentor for SPS right before COVID shut down in-person instruction on campus. Re-building SPS has been incredibly challenging, but so far sucessful. I’ve also re-started our Sigma Pi Sigma chapter, and we’ve held three induction ceremonies so far.