实习 & 职业生涯

"The MCLA physics program with its small class sizes and dedicated professors gave me an excellent physics education. They helped me develop a skill set that allows me to tackle diverse and complex problems. This has served me well, first as an environmental consultant, then in graduate school, and now in a career I love, as a physicist working in a radiation oncology department."  Andy Bergan '02, Medical Physicist at Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital 

实习 and 研究 Projects

Many of our students participate in the National Science Foundation 研究 (NSF) 研究 Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program.

Recent internships and projects include:

• 培训 on an Asylum MFP 3D Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) to study nanografting, which is directed self assembly of molecules with an AFM tip on a given substrate 创建一个新的表面.

• Testing the effects of size, surface chemistry, and elastic modulus of friction between nanoscale objects and surfaces. Will they slip, slide, or roll? 这项研究使用了 an AFM to study the motion of polystyrene microspheres across silicon substrates.

• Studying wave velocity differentials produced by earthquakes to study the structure of the core-mantle boundary of the Earth.

• Studying the physical manipulation of the Na/K pump at the REU in Applied 物理 at the University of South Florida.

• Learning about the origin and development of planets, stars, solar systems, and galaxies at the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket, MA.

• Participating in 密涅瓦 (Main Injector Neutrino ExperRiment v-A) at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Illinois, where hundreds of scientists and re搜索ers from colleges and universities across the county and around the globe are studying 中微子.