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Students
Physics major Coral
Franklin has been awarded a scholarship through
the McKee Foundation. Only six of
these are awarded per year.
Physics majors Coral Franklin, Erin
Middlemas, and Qiongge Li attended the
First Annual Southeast
Conference for Undergraduate Women in
Physics, held at Duke University
January 15 - 17, 2010. Coral
Franklin presented a poster entitled
`Modeling the Mice Interacting Pair of
Galaxies Using a Genetic Algorithm'.
Physics major Sabrina Hurlock
participated in the
`Posters at the State
Capitol Day' in Nashville in February
2010. She presented a poster on her
research titled `Automatic Detection of
Coronal Mass Ejections'.
Several Physics majors gave
presentations on their research at the
March 2010 ETSU Undergraduate Student
Research Forum/Symposium.
Sabrina Hurlock (shown at left) gave a
talk entitled `Programmatically Detecting
Coronal Mass Ejections'
(Advisor: Don Luttermoser), as well as a
poster titled `Multi-Wavelength
Comparison of Interacting Galaxies'
(Advisor: Beverly Smith).
Ryen Lapham gave a talk on `Venusian
Mantle Modeling and Corona Formation'
(Advisor: Suzanne Smrekar, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory). Coral Franklin
presented a poster entitled `Modeling the
Mice Interacting Pair of Galaxies using a
Genetic Algorithm' (Advisor: Beverly
Smith). Jessica Webb
presented a poster titled `Phase Lags in
the Optical-Infrared Light Curves of
Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars' (Advisor:
Beverly Smith). Jason
Beaulieu, Thomas Gemmer, and William
Jamieson were all co-authors on a poster
entitled `Dynamical Behavior of the
Discrete-Time Logistic Model' (Advisor:
Dr. Ariel Cintron-Arias, ETSU Math Dept),
along with Physics Minor Jeremy Brooks
and two other students.
Physics major Sabrina Hurlock won
the ETSU `Unsung Hero' award at the ETSU
Summit Awards on March 12, 2010, for her
work in public outreach in physics and
astronomy. For more information and
another photo, click
here.
Two physics majors, Erin Middlemas (left)
and Qiongge Li (right), performed at the
2010 Piano Concert `Chopin
200/Dances', held in the ETSU Music
Dept April 17.
Qiongge Li won the `Outstanding
Physics Major of the Year'
award. This prize is awarded
to the graduating senior physics major
with the highest overall GPA. She
will graduate in May 2010, and will
attend the University of Georgia in the
fall, as a graduate student in Physics.
A collection of Physics majors at
the Spring 2010 lunch for
majors. From left to
right: Coral Franklin, Chance
Brown, Tom Gemmer, John Burdette, Jason
Beaulieu, Trisha Massenzo, Erin
Middlemas, Olivia Miller, and Qiongge
Li.
Graduating senior Sabrina Hurlock
gave a presentation on her Honors thesis
on Monday April 26, 2010. Her
thesis was titled `
Automatic Detection
of Coronal Mass Ejections Using Advanced
Coronal Image Separation Methods'
.
In
this picture, she is shown with her
thesis advisor Dr. Don Luttermoser.
Seven physics majors graduated in May
2010. They include Qiongge Li
(left) and Weisong Tu (right), along with
Jason Beaulieu, Sabrina Hurlock, Daniel
Phillips, Jesse Delatte, and Alfred
Hopkins (not shown).
Three more of our May 2010 graduates
are shown here. Left to
right, they are Alfred Hopkins, Jessie
Delatte, and Sabrina Hurlock.
Alumni
ETSU Physics graduate Chris Carver
(2009) started medical school at ETSU
this Fall.
Physics graduate Rachel Miller (2009)
started graduate school in Physics at
the University of Tennessee at
Knoxville this fall.
ETSU Physics graduate Wes Erbsen (2008)
started graduate school in Physics at
Kansas State University this fall.
ETSU Physics graduate Tommy Byrd (2008)
started graduate school in Physics at
the College of William and Mary this
fall.
ETSU Physics graduate Phil Davis (2005)
started graduate school in Math at ETSU
this fall.
ETSU Physics graduate Mike Houchins
(2001) started a new job at
Liquidia, a
nanotechnology company that specializes
in the design and manufacture of micro-
and nanoparticles for applications in
the life and material
sciences. Mike received a
masters degree in Material Science from
Clemson University in 2006.
ETSU Physics major graduate David Begley (2008)
started graduate school in Civil Engineering in
January 2009 at the Colorado School of
Mines
Jennifer Salyer Houchins (Math
Major/Physics Minor Class of 2004) is now working
at
SHODOR, a national resource for
computational science education, in Durham NC.
Sean Mathews (Class of 2006) is now a
Medical Physicist at the Baylor Health Care
System in Dallas, Texas. He received a
master's degree in Medical Physics from the
University of Kentucky in 2009.
Dave Haefner (Physics major Class of 2004)
received his PhD in Optics from the University of
Central Florida in May 2010. His thesis
title was `Near-Field Optical Interactions and
Applications'. To read the abstract
of his thesis, click
here.
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