REU Research Projects

The projects described below are typical research projects. These projects were offered during previous REU programs. We expect to offer a similar array of projects for this summer. 

Note: as the result of moving this site to a different site, only links to 2018 and 2017 abstracts are active. We are working on restoring the remaining links.

List of sample projects for past years

• "The day the experiments died" by Blake Conley - Clarkson University
• "Single Molecule Imaging on E Coli" by Michelle Dancsecs - Tennessee Technological University
• "Electrical Properties of a Signal Cable" by Jeremy Mock Case - Western Reserve University
• "Movies of Relativistic Jets" by Kevin O’Brien
• "Monte Carlo Simulation for Kobe Meteorite" by Kelly Patton - College of Wooster
• "Cosmology, the Big Bang, WMAP" by Desiree’ Skaggs
• "Photosynthesis: study of the cytochrome b6f complex" by John Schaibley
• "J/psi Suppression" by Danielle H. Speller
• "A Phase Change in Lysozyme Crystals" by Greg Twork - Clemson University 

Summer 2019 projects abstracts (PDF)

Summer 2018 projects abstracts (PDF)

Summer 2017 projects abstracts (PDF)

Summer 2012 projects:

• "Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Nitride Heterostructures"
  Emily Finan, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
• Geophysics: Swarm bahavior in fluid flowing through fracture networks"
  Tressa Mackin, Valencia College, FL
• "Liquid Krypton Gamma Detector & Neutron Imaging"
  Matthew Krupcale, Case Western Reserve University, OH 
• "Quantum Hall Effect"
  Zily Burstein, Loyola Marymount University, CA
• "Ultrafast X-ray Detector"
  Calvin Ebinger, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY
• "Graphene Nanomesh for Kidney Dialysis"
  Emily Ehlerdin Manchester College IN
• "Orbital Period Derivative of OAO 1657‐415"
  Joe Street, Purdue
• "Antiferromagnetic Transistors"
  Kristofer Phleger-Schumacher, Purdue
• "The Hunt For Dark Matter With Liquid Xenon"
  Gregory Pach, The University of Kansas
• "The Search for Dark Matter, and Xenon1TP"
  Jamin Rager, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI
• "Investigating the Role of Entanglement in the Avian Compass"
  Abe Pauls, Goshen College, IN 

Summer 2011 projects:

• "Measuring the Effects of Ion Implantation on the Photoinduced Carrier Lifetime of Semiconductor Materials"
  Mario Johnson, Southern University and A&M College, LA
• "Gamma Ray Spectroscopy for Elemental Analysis"
  Russell Goff, Purdue University, IN
• "Computational Study of Protein Diffusion in a Membrane"
  Schneider Kate, Santa Fe College, FL
• "Study of Capped Metallic Nanoparticles with Infrared Spectroscopy"
  Melanie Pierce, University of Portland, OR
• "Investigating the Quantum Mechanism for Magnetorecption in Birds"
  Abe Pauls, Goshen College, IN
• "Biophysics:Diffusion through Biological Tissue"
• Andrew McElroy, John Carroll University, OH
• "Modeling Subaru through the LSST Simulator"
  Mary Hodge, Murray State University, KY
• "Metal Gates for p-type GaAs Heterostructures"
  Brittany Hoard, Pennsylvania State University, PA
• "Laser optics Interferometry"
  Kristen Brockway, Florida Inst. of Technology, FL
• "The Variation of Nuclear Decay Rates by Solar Influence: Part Duex"
  Sean Fancher, Purdue University, IN
• "VERITAS simulations"
  Kara Ponder, University of Georgia, GA

Summer 2010 projects:

• "Fracture properties from seismic waves"
  Nolan Teasdale, Purdue University
• "Using Micromodels to Understand the Flow of Two Fluids"
  Caroline Webb, Brown University University
• "Fluorescence of quantum dots on a graphene substrate"
  Paul Davis, University of Louisville
• "Bose-Einstein Condensates"
  Conrad Hawkins, Purdue University
• "Spin Noise Spectroscopy of Rubidium"
  David Blasing, Wheaton College
• "Laser Control for Atom Trapping and Cooling"
  Roger Ding, Mary's College of Maryland
• "Picosecond X-ray Detector for Synchrotrons"
  Jason Boomsma, Anderson University
• "Quantum Computing"
  Laura Sisken, Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology
• "Supernova Remnants as Cosmic Ray Accelerants"
  Jamie Overbeek, Michigan State
• "Large Synoptic Survey Telescope optics simulations"
  Ahmad, Southeast Missouri State University
• "Catalytic Water Oxidation by Ruthenium Complexes"
  Jessica Webb, East Tennessee State University
• "Intersubband Transitions in Semiconductor Heterostructures"
  Lisa Nash, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Summer 2009 projects:

• "Chondrites & Chondrules"
  Corwin Atwood-Stone, College of Wooster
• "Efficiency of Gamma Ray Detectors"
  Amanda Barnett, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Gold/Platinum Nanoparticles"
  Courtney Byard, University of Louisville
• "Simulation on the Response of the STAR HFT Pixel Detector"
  Alex Cimaroli, Purdue University
• "Higgs Analysis for the CMS"
  Lee Coates, Purdue University
• "Higgs Boson Analysis, Part II"
  Amelia Uecker, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• "Achieving Super Resolution Using Quantum Dots"
  Nicholas Fitzsimmons, Florida State University
• "Manganese Neurotoxicity"
  Meghan Kohne, DePauw University
• "Wilson Loops in Large N Field Theories"
  Matthew Krafczyk, University of Illinois Urbana
• "Molecular Beam Epitaxy"
  Shaun Mills, Grove City College
• "Bs to J/Psi-y"
  Nishanth Sasankan, Purdue University
• "Laser Speckle: application for trapping"
  Joel Sleppy, Washington University in St. Louis
• "Gamma-Ray Luminosity in Pulsar Wind Nebulae"
  Eleanor Terry-Welsh, WPI
• "Atmospheric Characterization of El Penon: The Site of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope"
  Mallory Young, Hendrix College