James Ensor
Class of 2017
Zoey Chittick
Class of 2016
Maxwell Wheeler
Class of 2018
Rodrigo Catalan-Hurtado is using the 1.5-meter SMARTS telescope in Chile to collect nightly optical spectra of a newly-discovered binary star system. The attached figure shows an example of a single spectral image. The bright vertical “stripes” are individual spectral orders that together cover the wavelength range 450 nm (leftmost order) to 850 nm (rightmost order). […]
This week we used a potentiostat to create arrays of nickel tubes ten microns long and approximately 600 nm in diameter. The potentiostat sends a current through a solution of nickel ions, causing the ions to travel into a template with cylindrical pores, creating the tubes. We analyzed these tubes using the scanning electron microscope […]
Matthew Carnaghi (’16) is a senior majoring in physics and computer science. Matt is working with Dr. Fiser at HPU in the university’s inaugural Summer Research Program in the Sciences (SuRPS). Their project is titled “Using biomimetic cilia arrays to investigate the flow of mucus in the human lung.” Their goal is to use life-sized artificial cilia (high […]
A team of students in the Department of Physics wrote a proposal for NASA to design and test the Chip ‘n’ Ship, a tool to chip and collect samples of rock from an asteroid. Their tool will be tested in the neutral buoyancy lab at Johnson Space Center in August, 2015. The team received financial […]
Physics majors are working in these summer internships.
