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SURF Awards 2013

SURF will Fund 26 Students

This summer, the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) will fund 26 students from across the University with funds from the Vice President for Research, the Honors Institute, the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, the Earth Planetary and Space Sciences Institute, and the Department of Physics. The total funding for the program this year is $85,800.

From Tech Today.

SURF award recipients in physics include:

Joseph Charnawskas
Advisor: Raymond Shaw
The Effects of the Gravitational Force on Water Particles in a Turbulent Flow

Mick Small
Advisor: Yoke Khin Yap
Photovoltaic Responses of Quantum Dot Sensitized ZnO Nanowires

Angela Small (Honor’s Institute)
Advisor: Jacek Borysow
Analysis of Artificial Breath Samples Using Raman Spectroscopy for Medical Diagnosis

Kevin Rocheleau (Honor’s Institute)
Advisor: Petra Huentemeyer
Analysis and Modeling of Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission from the Cygnus Region using FERMI and HAWC Data

The Motion Management Problem and The Radiotherapy of Abdomino-Thoracic Cancers

Teboh RolandPhysics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, March 28, 2013
at 4:00 pm
Room 139 Fisher Hall
The Motion Management Problem and The Radiotherapy of Abdomino-Thoracic Cancers
Teboh Roland
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Department of Radiation Oncology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

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John Jaszczak Publishes in Rocks and Minerals

Rocks And MineralsJohn Jaszczak, professor of physics and adjunct curator of the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum authored/co-authored three papers in the March-April 2013 issue of the journal Rocks and Minerals: “Raman Spectroscopy in the Identification of Minerals“, “Miracle at Merelani: A Remarkable Occurrence of Graphite, Diopside and Associated Minerals from the Karo Pit, Block D, Merelani Hills, Arusha Region, Tanzania,” and “Fluorapatite from a Remarkable Occurrence of Graphite and Associated Minerals from the Karo Pit, Block D, Merelani Hills, Arusha Region, Tanzania.”

From Tech Today.

Spacetime Brew in Michigan Tech Research Magazine 2013

Space Time BrewSpacetime: A Smoother Brew Than We Knew

Spacetime may be less like beer and more like cognac. Or so an intergalactic photo finish would suggest. Michigan Tech physicist Robert Nemiroff reached this heady conclusion after studying the tracings of three photons of differing wavelengths recorded by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in May 2009.

Read more in Michigan Tech Research Magazine, by Marcia Goodrich.