{"id":13881,"date":"2022-05-02T14:25:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T18:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/?p=13881"},"modified":"2022-05-02T14:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T18:25:58","slug":"adams-and-carey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/news\/adams-and-carey\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics Majors Samantha Adams and Oliver Carey on Finding Your Niche"},"content":{"rendered":"

Physics<\/a> majors Samantha Adams and Oliver Carey demonstrate how integral individuality is in the realm of liberal arts despite their similar academic tracks. Adams, a junior on a five-year track, and Carey, a junior graduating in 2023, are both Physics majors in URI’s College of Arts & Sciences<\/a> (A&S) focused on astronomy research, interning at the UMass-URI Research Consortium<\/a>, will soon be studying abroad, and plan to pursue advanced degrees in their field to continue their research careers. Yet, as Adams points out, \u201cYou\u2019d think we\u2019d be really similar, but we\u2019re very unique.\u201d She continues, \u201cBoth Oliver and I have been able to spread our wings outside of the physics department one way or another.\u201d Their stories illustrate the unique benefit in pursuing a liberal arts education, which is the ability to combine disciplines for both a well-rounded and individualized education. In other words, you can find your niche without having to put yourself in a box.<\/p>\n

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Samantha Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Adams is double majoring in physics and German, and Carey is majoring in physics and minoring in molecular biology. Through A&S, these students have found individuality in their research opportunities as well. At the UMass-URI Research Consortium, their research broadly pertains to radio astronomy. However, Adams found her niche in creating images of sources using radio data while Carey found his looking more specifically at the jets and X-Ray emissions produced by those sources. Overall, their work mutually seeks to advance astronomy research so that other researchers can draw their own conclusions as well as to make the \u201cpretty pictures\u201d of the sky that are broadly distributed to the public for astronomy education. Both Carey and Adams found that this internship benefitted them greatly in opening more doors of opportunity to them.<\/p>\n

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Oliver Carey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This summer, Carey looks forward to studying abroad at the Sfienza University of Rome in Italy, and Adams will be headed to Germany as part of the International Engineering Program this upcoming Fall. Additionally, Adams will be working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory this summer as an intern with support from the A&S internship fund. Excitedly, she says, \u201cThey run the telescopes that I get my data from. The person is known as who you talk to if you\u2019re doing radio astronomy.\u201d She continues, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be able to do research and get that if I didn\u2019t have the research experience and help from my advisors here at URI.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carey also credits his education in A&S as being well-rounded and subsequently pivotal to his opportunities. He tells broadly of his learning experience, \u201cPutting things into historical context to be able to work with them now is super important.\u201d Furthermore, he feels he is able to \u201creally make the most of what we\u2019re doing and what we want to do in our future.\u201d Although that future is somewhat uncertain, Carey, like Adams, is certain he wants to pursue graduate programs for either physics or astronomy. Carey has also considered working in industry, such as for NASA or SpaceX, and Adams is considering teaching as a professor eventually. Carey closes insightfully, \u201cComing back together every year and having classes has made it feel like it\u2019s completely okay that we\u2019re on different paths and working and trying really hard to get there.\u201d With their broad yet specific backgrounds, they are well prepared to take on whatever challenges they choose to pursue.<\/p>\n

~By Sabrinna Fogarty ’22<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-13881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-physics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13881"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13887,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881\/revisions\/13887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}