The third annual issue of Spera, Hope’s pulication for faculty research, scholarship and creative performance, highlighted Dr. Stephen Remillard’s research studying microplasmas, how they can be generated, and their properties.
“There’s a very limited understanding of plasma starting in very small places,” Remillard says. “That’s what’s neat about microplasma: everything we knew about macroplasmas has to be modified, and that’s what we’re working on.”
Dr. DeYoung’s new grant from the National Science Foundation, awarded last summer, will support the Hope College Nuclear Group in their ongoing research on campus as well as at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State.
Through one project, DeYoung and his students are examining the specifics of nuclear reactions and the decays that happen in supernovae, which involve unimaginably massive nuclear blasts, and the merging of neutron stars across the millennia have played — and continue to play — in generating the elements found throughout the universe. It’s research that the Hope group is pursuing with the NSCL’s Summing NaI (SuN) group, an international team of scientists focused on nuclear astrophysics.
In the other project, the Hope group, along with the national Modular Neutron Array (MoNA) collaboration, is seeking to understand the force that holds the nucleus together. The team is studying nuclei that have had many extra neutrons added, to see how they behave.
Paul DeYoung with Provost Short-Thompson and the other award winners.
At the recent Faculty Recognition Luncheon, Dr. Paul DeYoung was the recipient of the Ruth and John Reed Faculty Achievement Award. The annual award is given to a faculty member “who is first a superior teacher and who also contributes significantly in some other area of professional life.”
His nomination letter read in part:
Paul has the willingness and expertise to teach nearly the entire physics curriculum from the algebra-based introductory course up through quantum mechanics. He is scheduled to teach the single course of the core physics offerings that he has not taught yet, Statistical Mechanics, next fall.
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Paul’s research program received its first funding in response to an RUI request to the NSF during his first semester at Hope College. Since that first award in 1986 the funding has been continuous.
The dates for the 2020 Research Program are May 18 to July 24, unless otherwise indicated.
Students selected for the Summer Research Program will receive a stipend. Housing assistance is also provided if the student lives on campus.
Incoming Hope College students hired for the Bridge Research Program will be paid at a reduced rate for a duration to be arranged. Students interested in Bridge Research should contact the Department at hampton@hope.edu.
Applications will be reviewed starting February 12, 2020. We do not anticipate offering any positions to students from other institutions in 2020.
For more information contact us at physicsreu@hope.edu.
In recent years, funding for the Summer Research Program has been provided by: National Science Foundation Howard Hughes Medical Institute Department of Energy National Aeronautics and Space Administration Michigan Space Grant Consortium Hope College Jacob E. Nyenhuis Faculty Development Fund Hope College Dean for Natural and Applied Sciences Hope College Bibart Research Fund Hope College Department of Physics Hope College Department of Physics Dr. Harry and Jeannette Frissel Research Fund Hope College Department of Physics L.T. Guess Research Fund
Way to go Hope Physics students! You’ve been recognized by the National Society of Physics Students community for the activities you were engaged in during the 2018-2019 academic year!
We at the SPS National Office want to take this opportunity to commend and applaud you for your tireless efforts to enrich the SPS community. It is because of your dedication and commitment to the SPS mission and vision that we are able to foster such a strong SPS community.
