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The research being conducted by the two dozen students in HPU’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program in the Science (SuRPS) covers a wide range of physical scales. Rising senior Ryan Hegedus’ work deals with the largest of scales at SuRPS: extreme binary star systems moving on the order of 200,000 mph at a distance of 100s […]

Luis has been with working Dr. Chris Hughes at JMU all summer on a materials science research project. Specifically, they are trying to determine how chloroform treatment might improve the adhesion of gold (Au) thin films onto PMMA (poly methyl methacrylate). PMMA is commonly known as acrylic or acrylic glass. The adhesiveness between Au and […]

Alan Vasquez and Ryan Hegedus are wrapping up a week-long research experience at the Educational Research in Radio Astronomy (ERIRA) program in Greenbank, West Virginia. The program is headed up by Dr. Dan Reichart at UNC-Chapel Hill and is funded by the National Science Foundation. Greenbank is located in the National Radio Quiet Zone, in […]

This summer, rising sophomore Spencer Ader is working with Dr. DeWitt, Ty Carlson, and Max Maurer on developing a self-driving RC car as part of HPU’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program in the Sciences (SuRPS). His primary contribution to the project deals with the system’s computer vision — he is using back-projected histograms to isolate objects […]

Over the next few weeks, we will briefly feature one of our students who is participating in summer research, whether at HPU, another U.S. institution, or even abroad. For our first student profile, we recognize rising sophomore Thomas Boudreaux, who is participating in the Space Astronomy Summer Program (SASP) at the Space Telescope Science Institute […]