This is a list of research experiences our students had during the summer.
2025
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- Therrin Baker ’28, “Ellipsoidal Nanoparticles, Resonance, and Spinning”, REU program at The College of Wooster.
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Brooke Benjamin ’27, “Correlating porosity on the NASA Universal Stage Adapter”, conducted research with the company Leidos.
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Tim Book ’27, “Black-Hole Horizon Analogue”, REU program at The College of Wooster.
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Gustav Bourdon ’26, “Defining Low-Velocity Dynamic Material Standards, Investigating the Behavior of Additively Manufactured Alloys under Pressure”, Sandia National Laboratories (NM), Department: 1647, Dynamic Materials Experiments.
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Jake Cammarata ’27, “Engineering Intern”, CivilEngineering Internship with PERC Water in Fountain Valley, California.
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Molly Cohan ’26, “Li+ Ion Transport in Aqueous Biphasic Systems”, Integrating Computation and Experiment to Create Revolutionary Materials REU (ICECRM or Materials REU for short) at Colorado School of Mines.
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Max Francis ’27, “Schlieren Imaging for Research in Physics and Chemistry”, credit course through PHYS-430 ‘Experience in the Discipline’ course, at The College of Wooster.
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Abby Hovorka ’26, “SI-RAFT Synthesis of Poly(methyl acrylate)-Grafted Gold Nanorods”, REU internship at Cleveland State University and Case Western Reserve University.
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Namit Misra ’26, “Solar blind UV-C photodetectors”, Ohio State University, as part of the OH-5 SURE and Intel CAFE program.
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Caitlin O’Neil ’26, “Crystal Growth Control of a Metal-Organic Framework on Cotton Textile”, Dartmouth College.
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Maddie Ostapchenko ’27, “Determining the composition and structures of lake sediment and igneous rocks through the use of XRF, XRD, and microscopes”, Earth Science Research Associate, The College of Wooster Department of Earth Science.
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Yuhe Ren ’26, “Fire Pulses”, REU program at The College of Wooster.
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Joe Russo ’26, “DNA Origami”, REU program at Cleveland State University.
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Jon Stowers ’27, “Structural and Magnetic Contributions to SHG in BaMnSb2“, Physics REU program at the University of South Carolina
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Martin Zwergel ’27, “Schlieren Imaging for Research in Physics and Chemistry”, credit course through PHYS-430 ‘Experience in the Discipline’ course, at The College of Wooster.
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2024
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- Aeralyn Flynn ’25: Studying the Orbital History of Comet P/2022 R1, Astronomy and Planetary Science REU at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Juno Ryan ’26, “Monitoring R Aquarii’s SiO masers through periastron”, Summer Student at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico.
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- Karmellah Buttler ’25: Analyzing the Clay Mineralogy of Wildfire Soils, ESCI Summer Research Associate, The College of Wooster Department of Earth Sciences
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- Lily Baker ’25: 3D Printed Polyamide Membranes for Gas Separation” H2 REU at the University of Connecticut.
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- 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.
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- Noah Hankin ’26: Investigating Pioneer Factors’ Mechanisms for Invading Silent Chromatin Utilizing a Dual Optical Trap, Ohio-5 OSU SURE
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- 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.
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- Tess Mantineo ’26: Title, IMOD (NSF Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand) at the City College of New York.