Research

Recent Summer Research

• Geology of Mercury, Lunar and Planetary Lab, University of Arizona
• Atlantic Ocean boundary currents, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Artificial bone from coral, University of Massachusetts
  

Capstone Courses/Senior Scholars Day

A Capstone course provides all physics majors the opportunity to pursue independent research.  Often, such work is presented in Susquehanna’s Senior Scholars Day, a campus-wide celebration of scholarship held each spring. 

Recent Capstone Projects

• Astronomical CCD Spectral Imaging
• Red Clump Stars as Distance Indicators
• Hydraulic Regenerative Braking
• Energizer Bunny Battery Life Testing
• Quantum Mechanics and Numerical Approximation

Faculty Research Interests

• Geology of Mercury, using the Hawaii infrared telescope and the Messenger Mercury probe
• Experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, and data reduction and analysis