Physics Research Opportunites

Introduction - Undergraduate Research

Physics students have numerous research opportunities and can often be paid for their research work.  Research grants and the Monville-Hunter fund provide stipends for student researchers to work with faculty during the summer.  The department also participates in an interdisciplinary program, supported by the W. H. Keck fund, which allows science students from John Carroll University to work with researchers at the Cleveland Clinic and the CWRU Medical School.  In addition, internships in applied optics are available with the Lighting Innovations Institute, which is located in the Physics Department.

The department encourages students to participate in Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) programs.  These are ten week summer research programs funded by the National Science Foundation and hosted by several universities and research laboratories.  Students have the opportunity to work on a significant research project, to attend lectures on current research in physics, and to meet physics students from other institutions.

Research Opportunities for Summer 2008

Links to all Research Experience for Undergraduate programs that have contacted the department can be found here.

Previous Student REU Experiences

Summer 2004 Research

• John Cesaratto - Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) Duke University in Durham, NC . You can view John's research abstract here  John went to Chicago in late October '04 to present his research at the Department of Energy's Nuclear Physics Conference. You can view the poster for John's presentation here
  
  
• Timothy Mitchell - John Carroll University Physics Department, under the supervision of Dr. Jeffrey Dyck. researching Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors. Tim was personally  involved  with setting up a new cryogenics system that arrived last summer and writing Labview programs that would interface all of the equipment. He is continuing the research this fall in PH 307.
  
  
• Kimberly Adams - John Carroll University Physics Department, under the supervision of Dr. Jeffrey Dyck. researching Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors. Kimberly is a Clare Boothe Luce scholar for the school years 2004-05 and 2005-06 and is being supported by the Clare Boothe Luce Foundation.
  
  
• James Farrant - NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field. It was a national 10-week program whereby Jim worked on Optical Mass Guaging. The optical mass gauge seeks to find a solution to the problem of quantifying cryogenic liquids used for propellants in low gravity without resorting to settling. The optical mass gauge introduces a light source into the tank carrying the liquid with the appropriate range of passive/absorptive wavelengths present. The amount of light-attenuation at a detector should scale with the amount of liquid in the tank, thus providing a gauge to quantify the liquid.

Summer 2003 Research

• Dave Boris - Lighting Innovations Institute : Optical Design
  
  
• Rick Liptak - Lehigh University : Solid State Physics -  High-K Gate Dielectrics for CMOS Devices
  
  
• Timothy Mitchell - NASA Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field :