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All students majoring in Physics complete a two-semester Senior Project of original research.
The project may include theoretical, experimental, and computational components.

Senior Project Highlight

Bruno Becher (21') is taking a go-kart for a test drive. The go-kart was constructed by Joshua Etukudo (21') as part of his senior project. Joshua's goal was to build a car that can go at least 20 miles per hour. The tests in this video confirmed that Joshua's vehicle went well beyond his 20 mph goal.

Recent Senior Projects

  • X-ray image of the region around the black hole in the center of the Milky Way.
    2021
    • Bruno Becher, The Complex Propagation of Light Explained Visually: How to Make a Hologram
    • Cole Cecchetto, Explorations In Quantum Chaos
    • Yanpei Deng, Electronic Properties of Flat and Curved Graphene Sheets
    • Joshua Etukudo, Investigating the Efficiency of Energy Transfer in Vehicular Motion
    • Zachary Hait, Dimentia: Footnotes of Time
    • Nathalie Jones, Brightening of the Bridge: Reflections of a Past Sgr A* Outburst in Galactic Center Molecular Clouds
    • Andrew Poverman, Quantum optics, entanglement, and Bell's Theorem
  • Reconstruction of an optically Fourier transformed image.
    2020
    • Logan Kaebling, Production of Entangled Photons via Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion
    • Ethan Richman, Electrochemical Modulation of Bacterial Biofilm Formation
  • Mac Selesnick’19 presents his senior project work on why black holes spin.
    2019
    • Yu-Tien Chou, Practice Room Acoustics: What Matters to the Musicians About the Practice Space
    • Isobel Curtin, The Invisible Sun: Building a Radio Interferometer Telescope
    • Rory Maglich, Optimizing Glide-Flight Paths
    • Mac Selesnick, What Causes Black Holes to Spin?
    • Kyle Zigner, Methane Sensing in the Field
  • 2018
    • Daniel Godines Alcantara, A Microlensing Detection Algorithm for Wide-Field Surveys
    • Hunter Manel, A Technical Analysis and Exploration of Guitar Pickups and Electronics
    • Liam Schramm, A Study of Neural Networks for the Quantum Many-Body Problem
    • Noah Schwink-Zanella, General Relativity and the Quartz Crystal Oscillator
    • Nick Shenberger, Understanding, Designing, and Building a Hydroelectric Generator

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