Research and internships are key elements of our program. You'll grow in skill level and confidence as you master applied physics in the classroom, at the bench and out in the field.
Our students:
- Conduct research, travel to scientific meetings, and publish with faculty
- Conduct independent research as a senior and write a thesis
- Are awarded summer fellowships
- Attend graduate or medical school
Recent REU programs and summer fellowship sites that students attended:
- University of Washington
- Johns Hopkins University
- Columbia University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Harvard University
- Oregon State
- California Institute of Technology
- University of Colorado
- Cornell University
Our physics majors/minors recently attended or are attending graduate programs or medical school at:
- Auburn University
- University of Western Australia
- NY Medical College
- Columbia University
- Northeastern University
- McGill University
- Tufts University
- George Washington University
- Washington University
- University of Oregon
- Boston University
- Emory University School of Medicine
A sample of student thesis topics:
- Degradation of [Ir(ppy)2(dtb-bpy)]PF6, Heather Bankowski
- A Study of Thermal Noise for Enhanced LIGO, Lucienne Merrill (The experimental work was carried out at MIT under the supervision of Dr. Gregg Harry.)
- A Green Process to Depolymerize PLA, Jennifer Boice
- Characterization of Poly(lactic acid) in Various Standard Acidic Conditions by Scanning Electron Microscopy, Lauren Morrell
- Microfluidics: Electrowetting, Regina Yopak
- Dynamic light scattering analysis of aggregation processes in ß-amyloid fibrils, Kathy Chaurasiya
- Templating the growth and nucleation of calcium oxalate monohydrate on gold via microcontact printing, Tania M. Cabrera
- Identification of steroids by post-source decay fragmentation MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, Sheri Benson
- Synthesis and Aggregation of New Colloidal Particles, Pamela Sahota
- Synthesis, Characterization and Use of Bipyridyl Ruthenium Complexes in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, Erica Gunn.
- Characterization of an FSIR Sensor, Emily Coombs
- A Validation of Two Forensic Procedures for the Detection of Salivary Amylase, Hannah Knowles
