Summer Research Program 2019

Apply online at https://sharp.hope.edu. Choose from a range of externally funded research projects: AC Spectroscopy Material Characterization Advanced Functional Materials Astrophysics Interdisciplinary Nuclear Science Nanoscale Materials for Energy Storage Nuclear Physics Plasma Spectroscopy in Microgaps Superconductivity The dates for the 2019 Research Program are May 20 to July 26, unless otherwise indicated. Students selected for …

Students Meet Nobel Laureate at NASA

It’s not every day that you get to meet a Nobel Laureate. But three physics students working with Dr. Peter Gonthier this summer did just that! While working at NASA Goddard this summer at the start of the Department’s Summer Research Program, Astrophysics Group research students Madeleine Rabitoy, Noah Giddings, and Meredith Bomers had a …

Summer Research Program 2018

Apply online at https://sharp.hope.edu. Choose from a range of externally funded research projects: AC Spectroscopy Material Characterization Advanced Functional Materials Astrophysics Interdisciplinary Nuclear Science Nanoscale Materials for Energy Storage Nuclear Physics Plasma Spectroscopy in Microgaps Superconductivity The dates for the 2018 Research Program are May 21 to July 27, unless otherwise indicated. Students selected for …

SPS Sponsored research talks by three Hope students:

Friday, September 15 at 3:00pm “Depolarization and Scattering Signatures of Spherical Particles” by Yong Chul Yoon “Comparing Electrochemical Calculations and Particle Induced X-Ray Emission Measurements of Prussian Blue Analogue Deposits” by Scott Joffre “Automated Characterization of Fluxon Electrodynamics” by Alexander Medema

Stories of Hope: Hope Astrophysicists

Seeing Stars Time travel, long imagined by writers and dreamers, is not as far-fetched as you might believe. Sure, it seems fantastical and improbable — the imaginings of which are only meant for postulations and movies — but astrophysicists do it all the time. And so did Hope College freshman Jeff Engle in the summer of …