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By Sara Sand B.S. HTC Engineering Physics, Class of 2017 I spent about half of the summer in the lab with Dr. Martin Kordesch building rudimentary Stirling engines. I endeavored to build an understanding of the various types of Stirling engines, improve their efficiency, and gain laboratory and machine-shop skills. […]

David Overton B.S. Physics, Class of 2016 David Overton worked with Dr. Carl Brune, Professor of Physics at Ohio University, on determining the feasibility of measurements of the 19F(p,n)19Ne* reaction. The goal was to provide information to better determine 18F(p,alpha)15O reaction rate. This rate is important for the generation of […]

By Miles Lindquist B.S. HTC Astrophysics, Class of 2017 I worked with Dr. Heather Crawford on developing a more realistic simulation of the GRETINA gamma-ray tracking detector array. This work is critical in understanding the full performance of the GRETINA detectors, which cover 1/4 of a sphere, and to predict […]

Hunter Lawson B.S. HTC Engineering Physics, Class of 2017 Hunter Lawson helped Dr. Martin Kordesch grow lanthanum manganate (LaMnO3 or LMO) on lanthanum aluminum oxide (LaAlO3 or LAO) and strontium titanate (SrTiO3 or STO) in the lab. The LMO will be used as a thermionic emitter. The growth on LAO […]

Natalie Klco B.S. HTC Physics and B.A. HTC Music, Class of 2015 Natalie Klco spent the summer in Italy and France participating in two projects under the direction of Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics at Ohio University. Hicks is a member of a team of researchers conducting a tracking […]

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 […]