Student Research Projects

There are many opportunities for undergraduates to work with individual faculty members on their research projects. Interested students should talk with their professors.

Elijah Brookes, Joshua Woods and Brian Collins studied the surface roughness of polymer films deposited using Matrix Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation in Dr. Bubb's laser lab.

Ross Brockunier, Mishae Khan and Jessica Lindorff used laser ablation to coat biological growth medium with polymers in Dr. Bubb's lab.

Stephanie Devlin was a Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellow for the academic year 1999-2000. She carried out Monte Carlo simulations of Ising model magnets, under the supervision of Dr. Cowley. Here she displays a poster of her results.

Other students who have carried out research projects are:

• Jeff Gross perfomed cell-cluster model calculations of sodium chloride, published in the Physical Review, vol. 42, p 3135.
• Mark Nordberg made molecular dynamics simulations of Argon, published in the Physical Review, vol 45, p 2493.
• Fathi Zekaria studied moment-expansions of phonon line-shapes, published in the Physical Review (part II), vol 50. p 16380.
• Jesse MacGregor was a Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellow for the academic year 1998-1999. He programmed molecular dynamics simulations of Tin Telluride.
• Michael West created a simulation of cell division, working with Dr. Gagliardi.
• Anita Ngatchou programmed a molecular dynamics simulation of a vacancy in a two-dimensional crystal.
• Bruce Henderson carried out a simulation of solid Argon at very high pressure.