Physics majors Samantha Adams and Oliver Carey have both been interning at the UMass-URI Research Consortium this semester. Adams is creating images of sources using radio data and Carey is looking specifically at the jets and X-Ray emissions produced by those sources.
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Ph.D. Student Erik Carlson on Promising Possibilities in Physics
After earning degrees in mathematics and physics, Erik Carlson ’20 is now pursuing a Ph.D. in physics. He is currently involved in research to create federal guidance on the best methodology and practices to monitor endangered species in offshore wind environments.
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URI’s Department of Physics celebrated the launch of its new M.S. degree program in Quantum Computing with the inaugural conference in Quantum Computing and Quantum Information Science (QIS) in October.
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We’re excited to welcome Dr. Vanita Srinivasa, our newest assistant professor of physics and director of our new quantum information sciences research program. “URI is uniquely poised for growth in quantum information science and has a matching enthusiasm for expanding research and education in this field,” she says.
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“Seeing the way one entire math class would suddenly appear in a single physics problem, or using a physics application to explain the meaning of a mathematical concept began to feel like I was watching a beautiful dance,” says Stefanie Hersey ’20, a recent graduate who double majored in physics and applied mathematics.
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“I am proud of how many departments I have been able to dip my feet into while at URI. From an office job in the School of Education and TAing in the physics department to the plethora of physics, math, education, and general education courses I was able to take — this allowed me to experience so much of what the University of Rhode Island has to offer.”
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“Through my classes and other experiences within the college, I have been equipped with a tool box of problem solving skills.”
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With the support of funding from the College of Arts and Sciences’ Impact Fund and a university in Japan, Ryan Vallee, a Physics and Chemistry double major, was able to put his passion for physics into action with a summer internship at the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research lab at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan.
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Michael Antosh, assistant professor of physics, is hoping to improve cancer treatments through research on the use on nanoparticles to enhance radiation therapy and ultimately make it more effective at eradicating cancer.
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Growing up calling Los Angeles and then New Hampshire home, Cassie Chartier had a multitude of colleges in her periphery. Though she ultimately chose URI for financial reasons, the largest public institution in the smallest state in the nation provided Chartier with the opportunity to explore a passion she’d held since high school: chemistry. “Chemistry […]
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For Melissa Morris, the choice to travel almost two hours from her home in Billerica, MA, to URI was decided by passion. Entering freshman year with the conviction of someone beyond her years, Morris knew two things: Chemistry was the right path for her, and she had no idea if she was right. “While my […]
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This fall, Robert Coyne joined the University of Rhode Island as a physics lecturer, and he expects to bring with him membership in an exclusive club: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, whose founders won the Nobel Prize in physics earlier this month.
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