Research

Kylie Holmes B.S. Astrophysics & Meteorology, Class of 2016 Kylie Holmes worked with Dr. Julie Roche on a particle physics project at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in Newport News, VA. “My main project was to stimulate signals produced by photon pairs resulting from pion decay,” Holmes explained. […]

Jacob Hartman B.S. Physics, Class of 2016 Jacob Hartman analyzed video microscopy images in Dr. David Tees’s lab, to get data that can be used to calculate the mechanical properties of cells. This work was done in consultation with Dr. Tees’s lab graduate students Aaron Burdette and Ameneh Mohammadalipour. Hartman worked […]

By Taylor Grueser B.S. HTC Astrophysics, Class of 2015 My research in Dr. Martin Kordesch’s lab was on metal induced crystallization of amorphous silicon, specifically using Digital Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) to look at the crystallization temperature of aluminum-silicon samples. When I started, I didn’t know anything about this subject and […]

Justin Courtright B.S. Physics and Applied Mathematics, Class of 2016 Justin Courtright incorporated Arduino based microcontrollers into experiments in Dr. Eric Stinaff’s lab. This included a motorized x-y translation stage, a vacuum gauge, and a capacitive touch display. These will be used in low-temperature, high-resolution, photoluminescence experiments. He worked on […]

By Helen Cothrel B.S. HTC Physics, Class of 2015 This summer I worked at the David Skaggs Research Center in Boulder, CO, to study the Earth’s ozone layer. I received funding through an Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship, a two-year appointment with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Education. […]

By Alex Carroll B.S. Astrophysics and Applied Mathematics, Class of 2017 I worked with Dr. Carl Brune to re-analyze the results from an experiment by Adremi Adekola (Ohio University Ph.D., 2009), on the thermonuclear reaction rate for the 18F(p,alpha)15O reaction. This process is important for the generation of energy and […]

By Max Camp B.S. physics, Class of 2016 I worked with Dr. Ken Hicks on looking for an exotic hadron called the pentaquark using data from the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, VA. The pentaquark is made of quarks, just like the proton and neutron, however the […]