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Awards and accomplishments of our students abound in
2000-01 academic year.
by Doug Harper
Students in the WKU Department of Physics and Astronomy racked up
an impressive list of accomplishments from scholarly activities during
the 2000-01 academic year.
Several students presented the results of their research activities
at conferences. While the entire list is too numerous to mention, the
conferences included: Argonne National Laboratory Undergraduate
Research Symposium in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, Kentucky
Academy of Science, National Conference on Undergraduate Research,
NASA Undergraduate Research Centers Technical Conference, and WKU
Sigma Xi Undergraduate Student Research Conference. Kenneth Purcell
received an award for outstanding paper at the WKU Sigma Xi conference
and Robert Taylor was awarded the outstanding paper at Kentucky
Academy of Science.
Nine WKU physics majors obtained research fellowships for the 2001
summer term. Eight of the fellowships were sponsored by the National
Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program,
awarded on a competitive basis to students from throughout the
country. Students from the department who received NSF-REU
summer fellowships are listed below along with their host schools and
their classification at the end of the Spring 2001 semester:
- Angela Adams, an Elizabethtown junior, University of Rhode
Island
- Gavi Begtrup, a Nashville senior, University of Houston
- Michael Farinelli, an Oldtown senior, University of Florida
- Lindsay Hopper, a senior from Lafayette, TN., Ohio State
University
- Srdan Hrkalovic, a Bowling Green junior, University of
Louisville
- Scott Little, a Pikeville junior, University of Louisville
- Kenneth Purcell, a Henderson junior, Florida State University
- Wes Ryle, a Burlington sophomore, Vanderbilt University
 Joshua James, a Bowling Green sophomore, received a summer
fellowship sponsored by the American Association of Physics in
Medicine. He worked in the Department of Physics and the Medical
School at Vanderbilt University.
Also, Adams, Hopper, Purcell, and Ryle along with Ashley Atkerson,
Rob Taylor, and Tala Monroe, received scholarships from the Kentucky
Space Grant Consortium for research activities during 2001-02. In
addition, Adams, Begtrup, and Purcell recently received a $2,000
research grant from the Sigma Pi Sigma Undergraduate Research Program.
The grant will be used to purchase equipment for an
"Investigation of Transport Properties of High-Tc Superconducting
Materials" in the WKU Solid State Physics Laboratory.
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