Category: Research

This week’s Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar will be given by TTU physics major Luke Parsons. In his talk Measurements of the 134Xe Neutron Capture Cross-Section Between 0.43 and 5.5 MeV, Luke will start off with a brief explanation of how “detectors” are used to obtain information about the physical world. He will then describe the use of HPGe radiation detectors at Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) on the Duke campus in North Carolina to measure the probability of nuclear processes important in the search for extremely rare events that can provide insight into new physical principles. The seminar will be this Friday at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210 with snacks served starting at 3:30pm. These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are also encouraged to attend! (And if you are an undergraduate researcher at TTU who would like to talk about your research as part of this seminar series, please send an email to Dr. Holley, aholley@tntech.edu.)

Dr. Gourab Bhattacharya (Earth Sciences) recently received a grant from the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund. This ACS research grant will span 2 years and fund 4-6 undergraduate students.

Dr. Bhattacharya and his students will investigate the timing and intensity of paleo-thermal events within the rocks of the Cumberland Plateau. This research will enhance our comprehension of the geological evolution of the hydrocarbon-rich southern Appalachian Basin, specifically the portion situated in Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau.

Congratulations, Dr. Bhattacharya on receiving this grant, and wings up for involving undergraduates in your research!

This week’s Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar will be given by TTU physics majors Caleb Eldridge, Joel Watson, and Ethan White who this past summer traveled to Taiwan for six weeks to participate in the PIRE-GEMADARC program. In their talk A Summer Research Experience in Taiwan, Caleb, Joel, and Ethan will describe their experiences in Taiwan as well as the individual research projects they tackled as part of the program. The seminar will be this Friday at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210 with snacks served starting at 3:30pm. These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are also encouraged to attend! (And if you are an undergraduate researcher at TTU who would like to talk about your research as part of this seminar series, send an email to Dr. Holley.)

This week’s Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar will be given by TTU Electrical Engineering major and Physic minor Dakota Moye who will describe his continuing study of the 34Mg decay chain. In his talk Decay of 34Mg and Its Daughters, Dakota will discuss his analysis of data taken at Canadian laboratory TRIUMF to determine key properties of known decay modes in this system as well as uncover new transitions. The seminar will be this Friday at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210 with snacks served starting at 3:30pm. These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are also encouraged to attend!For questions, contact aholley@tntech.edu

Please join us for this week’s Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar with Professor Athiray Panchapakesan, a solar scientist from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. In his talk X-ray views of the Sun – A Rocket Journey, Professor Panchapakesan will share his experiences as part of the launch campaigns for two next-generation solar observing missions as well as describe how such missions continue to enhance our understanding of the sun. The seminar will be this Friday at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210 with snacks served starting at 3:30pm. These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are also encouraged to attend! For questions, contact aholley@tntech.edu

This week’s Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar will be given by physics majors Cricket Bergner and Ezekiel Vespie. In their talk Decay Study of 33Mg and 35Mg for Level Scheme Development, they will describe their work this summer analyzing the nuclear decay of two isotopes of magnesium. In particular, they will describe analysis techniques they learned that enabled them to see new transitions in the decay chain of these isotopes. The seminar will be this Friday at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210 with snacks served starting at 3:30pm. These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are also encouraged to attend! For questions, contact aholley@tntech.edu

The first Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar of the semester will be this Friday at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210. (Snacks will be served starting at 3:30pm.) The speaker will be Professor Shane Hutson, A.B. Learned Professor of Living State Physics from Vanderbilt University. Prof. Hutson studies the physical and biochemical mechanisms of wound signaling in biological tissues and organs. In his talk Something’s wrong in the cellular neighborhood, Prof. Hutson will describe how he develops and quantitatively tests possible signalling mechanisms using image analysis, genetic tools, and computational models. These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are also encouraged to attend! For questions, contact aholley@tntech.edu