Three USciences Physics Majors Present Research Papers at APS Mid-Atlantic Section Conference
Published on November 27, 2017
Three physics majors presented three research posters at the 2017 Annual Meeting of
the Mid-Atlantic Section of the American Physical Society, on the campus of the New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT) in Newark, NJ on Nov. 4-6, 2017.
They were accompanied by their research mentor Associate Professor of Physics Dr. Roberto Ramos. Despina Nakos Phys'20 presented "Student Responses to a Flipped Physics
Class Environment with Built-in Feedback Quizzes", Caitlyn McConnell Phys'18 presented "Optimizing Sample
Preparation for Soft Point Contact Spectroscopy of Iron Pnictude Crystals" and Oberon
Wackwitz Phys'18 presented "Measuring the Superconducting Energy Gaps of Doped Iron
Pnictide Superconductors Ba_(1-x) K_x Fe_2 A_2 using Soft Point Contact Spectroscopy".
The three physics majors were awarded a $250 travel grant from the conference organizers.
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