Undergraduate
Research Assistantship Program
During 2003-04, Augsburg undergraduates Brad Motl,
Courtney Jenkins, Greg McKusky, Ryan Shea and Victor Acosta, have worked
closely with Dr. Wolf. New expansion includes the design and construction
of a new variable temperature sample holder. Design of the new sample
holder was done spring semester 2003, construction during summer and
fall 2003. Mounting and testing will be done in spring and summer 2004.
Undergraduates Geoff Shelburne and Steve Quick worked
with Dr. Engebretson to complete a study of Quasi-Periodic emissions
(QP) and periodic emissions (PE) observed at a set of four U. S. and
British research stations in Antarctica. Data collection supported by
NSF.
Further Pursuits of NASA Undergraduate Research Assistants
Graduating undergraduate research assistant Jared
Mack (Physics, 2003) is in a Physics doctoral program at Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York.
Courtney Jenkins (Physics, 2003) will be starting
a graduate program in Electrical Engineering at the University of Alabama,
Huntsville.
Brad Motl, (Physics, 2003) is in a doctoral engineering program at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison.
02 Summer Undergrad Research Assistant, Kailash Thapa, (Senior, Mathematics)
worked this past year with Dr. Nick Coult, Mathematics on a NSF grant
“Multiscale approach to wave propagation through turbulent regions
of Earth's space environment." In that role is helping Dr. Coult
develop mathematical models of waves in the near-Earth space environment.
He will be presenting his research at the CSEMS seminar on September
18, 2003. He will also be giving the Mathematics Colloquium at Augsburg
College on September 24, 2003.
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