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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 […]

By Peter Andrews B.S. Honors Tutorial College French and College of Arts and Sciences Linguistics, Class of 2018 I worked in Dr. Gang Chen’s lab, where I studied phase change memory materials (PCMM) that have been used in optical and electric memory devices such as DVDs and cell phone chips. […]

By Samantha Thrush B.S. HTC Astrophysics, Class of 2015 I spent my summer doing research on injecting simulated continuous gravitational waves into real gravitational wave data at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in Minneapolis. My funding came from a National Science Foundation […]