2021 REU Students
Jay-U Chung
Middlebury College
Mentor: Prof. Thomas O'Donnell
Project: Investigating the Radiopurity of Lithium Molybdate for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Searches
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Adam Dirican
U. of Maryland-College Park
Mentor: Prof. Camillo Mariani
Project: Evaluating tting models of the missing energy contribution of Ar and Ti nuclear shell orbitals using the E12-14-012 (e,e0p) scattering experiment at Jeerson Lab
![Zack Jerzyk](/content/phys_vt_edu/en/Undergraduate/REU/2021students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_1903560553/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.jpg/1633967065048.jpg)
Zachary Jerzyk
St. Norbert College
Mentor: Prof. Camillo Mariani
Project: Evaluating tting models of the missing energy contribution of Ar and Ti nuclear shell orbitals using the E12-14-012 (e,e0p) scattering experiment at Jeerson Lab
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Alicia Middleton
Rochester Institute of Technology
Mentor: Prof. Bruce Vogelaar
Project: Building a Moving LED Device for Calibrating the NuLat Detector
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![Nadia Qutob](/content/phys_vt_edu/en/Undergraduate/REU/2021students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_705435005/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.jpg/1633530745762.jpg)
Nadia Qutob
Georgia Tech
Mentor: Prof. Ian Shoemaker
Project: Heavenly Rays Illuminate Our Darkest Of Matter: Understanding Particle Physics of Dark Matter Through Cosmic Ray Dark Matter Interactions
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![Sami Reitz](/content/phys_vt_edu/en/Undergraduate/REU/2021students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_261427288/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.jpg/1633530754456.jpg)
Samantha Reitz
Radford University
Mentor: Prof. Shunsaku Horiuchi
Project: Analyzing systematic trends in cosmic SFR evolution
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![Kelly Richardson](/content/phys_vt_edu/en/Undergraduate/REU/2021students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_1972374244/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.jpg/1633700363297.jpg)
Kelly Richardson
Virginia Tech
Mentor: Prof. Jonathan Link
Project: Effect of anode and cathode luminous sensitivity on photomultiplier tube readings for use in the CHANDLER neutrino detector
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![Jah'shawn Ross](/content/phys_vt_edu/en/Undergraduate/REU/2021students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_95339096/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.jpg/1633530765469.jpg)
Jah'Shawn Ross
North Carolina Central Univ.
Mentor: Prof. Jonathan Link
Project: Designing Data Read Out Electronics for the CHANDLER Neutrino Detector
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![Kevin Sanford](/content/phys_vt_edu/en/Undergraduate/REU/2021students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_958409906/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.jpg/1633967112654.jpg)
Kevin Sanford
UC-Santa Cruz
Mentor: Marie Boer
Project: Studies of Proton Structure from Photo- and Electro-Production of Light Vector Mesons
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Tyler Schroeder
William and Mary
Mentor: Prof. Marie Boer
Project: Extracting the generalized parton distributions of protons through hard exclusive heavy meson production
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![Caroline von Raesfeld](/content/phys_vt_edu/en/Undergraduate/REU/2021students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_2106576596/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.jpg/1633530777938.jpg)
Caroline von Raesfeld
UC-Los Angeles
Mentor: Prof. Patrick Huber
Project: The use of CEvNS to monitor spent nuclear fuel
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