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.