2017 Collegiate Leaders in Environmental Health (CLEH) Summer Program

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in Atlanta, Georgia, are accepting applications for their Collegiate Leaders in Environmental Health (CLEH) Summer Program. Over the course of the summer, fellows will be exposed to a broad overview of environmental public health …

2017 DoD Summer Research Internships Opportunities

The following civilian summer research programs with the U.S. Air Force Research Lab, Army Research Lab and the Army Institute for Surgical Research can be located at www.orau.org/maryland.  A single application can be utilized to apply to all of these programs and other DoD research opportunities.   The opportunities with be located either in OH, MD …

Student Research Honored at National Engineering Conference

Rylan Prafke won an award and the 2016 Annual Meeting and National Student Conference of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).  His presentation “Response of Surface Bound Hexacyanoferrate Films to Binary & Tertiary Metal Alloy Compositions” was co-authored with Dr. Jennifer Hampton, associate professor of physics. Jacob Pledger also presented at the conference.  His …

SPS Seminar – Summer research

SPS Seminar Friday, October 14 3 pm VW 104 Anna Lunderberg Exploring the Effects of Copper on Composition and Charge Storage of Prussian Blue Analogue Pseudocapacitors As energy usage has increased in recent years, there has been great demand for efficient, cost-effective, and earth-abundant materials to be used for energy storage. The ability to produce …

Welcome Prof. Geoffrey Lenters

The Physics Department welcomes Prof. Geoffrey Lenters from Grand Valley State University. Prof. Lenters is visiting in our department during the fall 2016 semester and is working with Prof. Remillard on optical spectroscopy of microplasma emissions. As an astrophysicist, Prof. Lenters brings critical knowledge of plasmas and their optical emissions to the project. Please stop …