Haiying Liu (Chem), Ashutosh Tiwari (Chem), Ranjit Pati (Physics), along with graduate students Rashmi Adhikari, Mingxi Fang, Nethaniah Dorh, Cong Li, Jingtuo Zhang and Meghath Jaishi, published a paper titled “Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probes with Large Stokes Shifts for Sensing Zn(II) Ions in Living Cells” in ACS Sensors.
Kelci Mohrman research, The Geminga Pulsar Wind Nebula and the Positron Excess, was presented at Michigan Tech’s 2017 Undergraduate Research Symposium this past week. Mohrman looked to identify and model the gamma-ray emission of the Geminga PWN in GeV energies using data from the Fermi Space Telescope in order to determine the potential contribution to the local electron and positron flux.
Geminga (PSR J0633+1746) is a rotating neutron star, called a pulsar, located in the direction of the constellation Gemini. Surrounding the pulsar itself is a pulsar wind nebula (PWN), which accelerates particles to high energies and emits constant gamma radiation. It has been suggested that the particles accelerated by the Geminga PWN could explain the observed excess in the locally measured positron flux, though it was also proposed that this anomalous overabundance of positrons could be a consequence of the annihilation or decay of dark matter.
The Undergraduate Research Symposium highlights the amazing cutting-edge research being conducted on Michigan Tech’s campus by some of our best and brightest undergraduate students.
The students showcasing their work today have spent a significant portion of the past year working alongside Michigan Tech faculty and graduate students to explore, discover and create new knowledge. They’ve spent long hours in the lab or out in the field designing experiments, gathering data, creating new models and testing hypotheses. They’ve applied their classroom knowledge in new and sometimes unexpected ways, and developed new skills that will propel them forward in their careers.
Advisor: Dr. Petra Huentemeyer
Funding: SURF
Kaelan Anderson’s research, Studying the Properties of Free Tropospheric Aerosols in the Mid Atlantic, was presented at Michigan Tech’s 2017 Undergraduate Research Symposium this past week. With the assistance of Claudio Mazzoleni, Anderson looked at if the long term research of atmospheric aerosols is necessary to accurately understand and predict a variety of atmospheric phenomena. A relevant example is black carbon, and its forcing effects on the climate.
The Undergraduate Research Symposium highlights the amazing cutting-edge research being conducted on Michigan Tech’s campus by some of our best and brightest undergraduate students.
The students showcasing their work today have spent a significant portion of the past year working alongside Michigan Tech faculty and graduate students to explore, discover and create new knowledge. They’ve spent long hours in the lab or out in the field designing experiments, gathering data, creating new models and testing hypotheses. They’ve applied their classroom knowledge in new and sometimes unexpected ways, and developed new skills that will propel them forward in their careers.
Yoke Khin Yap’s research in high-brightness fluorophores earned him a place in Michigan Tech’s Research Magazine in the article “Commercialization“.
“We are expecting a huge impact to the field of flow cytometery…This will mean a lot for cancer and stem cell research.”
High-brightness fluorophores are dyes that fluoresce in different colors and degrees of brightness. They are used in machines called flow cytometers to detect diseased cells in blood.
Michigan Tech Magazine “Research” has released its 2017 issue detailing the recent discovery of Merelaniite by Dr. John Jaszczak and his team; with the article Meet the Minerals.
Merelaniite has a unique geometry made up of tiny whiskers of graphite-like spires extracted from the crooks of an albandanite crystal.
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new research grant marks more than 30 years of continuous support of NSF to Professor Alex Kostinski.
In the scientific community, Kostinski is well-known as a “Scientist for All Seasons” due to his somewhat nomadic interests in diverse areas of physics including fluid mechanics, atmospheric science, radar meteorology, astronomy, optics and semiconductor physics. Specifically, the results of his research have broad impacts on cloud physics resulting in highly-cited publications in Nature, Phys Rev Letts, Geophys Res Letts. etc.
Kostinski was the recipient of the 2004 Michigan Tech Research Award and has helped the department establish a well-funded research group in atmospheric physics which includes Raymond Shaw, Will Cantrell, and Claudio Mazzoleni.
Physics student Teresa Wilson placed 2nd in the Oral Presentation Competition. Below is a complete list of winners.
The 2017 Graduate Research Colloquium (GRC) was held on February 15-16 in the Memorial Union Ballroom. There were oral and poster presentation. The banquet was held on the evening of February 16
ABC 10’s Keweenaw Bureau Reporter Rick Allen reported on the colloquium. Read more and watch the video at ABC10 UP, by Rick Allen.
Complete list of winners:
Oral Presentation Competition
- 1st Place: Kevin Sunderland, Department of Biomedical Engineering
- 2nd Place: Teresa Wilson, Department of Physics
- 3rd Place: Andrew Chapp, Department of Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology
- Most Attended: Muraleekrishnan Menon, Department of Mechanical Engineering – Engineering Mechanics
- Most Attended: Niranjan Miganakallu, Department of Mechanical Engineering – Engineering Mechanics
Poster Presentation Competition
- 1st Place: Matthew Kilgas, Department of Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology
- 2nd Place: Brian Page, Department of Mechanical Engineering – Engineering Mechanics
- 3rd Place: Zichen Qian, Department of Biomedical Engineering
- People’s Choice: Mugdha Priyadarshini, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Student Service Awards
- Gorkem Asilioglu, Department of Computer Science
- Hossein Tavakoli, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Kate Glodowski, Department of Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology
- Erin Pischke, Department of Social Sciences
The GRC is held each year by the Graduate Student Government at Michigan Tech.
Alexander Kostinski (Physics/EPSSI) is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $156,119 research and development grant from the National Science Foundation.The project is “Correlated Random Processes in Physical and Radar Meteorology.”
This is the first year of a potential three-year project totaling $477,948.
Miguel Levy (Physics/MSE) and Dolendra Karki (Physics) authored a paper published this month in Scientific Reports — Nature, entitled “Nonreciprocal Transverse Photonic Spin and Magnetization-Induced Electromagnetic Spin-Orbit Coupling.”
Will Cantrell, coordinator of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, will conduct a workshop for students on the SURF application process, including writing an effective SURF proposal. The workshop will take place at 6 p.m. tomorrow (Jan. 12) in Fisher 130.
Faculty and staff are encouraged to notify students interested in applying for SURF funding to attend. This workshop will cover the same material as the one presented in December.
The deadline for SURF applications is 4 p.m. Jan. 27.