Student Summer Research Experiences


This is a list of research experiences our students had during the summer.

2024

  • Aeralyn Flynn ’25: Studying the Orbital History of Comet P/2022 R1, Astronomy and Planetary Science REU at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.
  • Eric Johnson ’25: Development of Radiation Sensitive Gels for MRI-Based 3D Dosimetry” SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology – Boulder.
  • Gus Thomas ’25: Towards Dynamic Inference for Gamma-ray Burst Localization on a Balloon-Borne Telescope, Big Data REU, Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Washington University.
  • Juno Ryan ’26, “Monitoring R Aquarii’s SiO masers through periastron”, Summer Student at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico.
  • Karmellah Buttler ’25: Analyzing the Clay Mineralogy of Wildfire Soils, ESCI Summer Research Associate, The College of Wooster Department of Earth Sciences
  • Lily Baker ’25: 3D Printed Polyamide Membranes for Gas Separation” H2 REU at the University of Connecticut.
  • Madelyn Noll ’25: Analyzing Hydrogen’s Effect on 1/2<111> Tungsten Screw Dislocations through Atomistic Simulations, ORISE Engineering and Physics Research Internship at the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio.
  • Noah Hankin ’26: Investigating Pioneer Factors’ Mechanisms for Invading Silent Chromatin Utilizing a Dual Optical TrapOhio-5 OSU SURE
  • Tali Lansing ’25: A Quantitative Analysis of Motion Management Techniques for Lung Radiation Therapy, Summer Undergraduate Fellowship Program with the American Association of Physicists in Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
  • Tess Mantineo ’26: Title, IMOD (NSF Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand) at the City College of New York.