The KSU
Department of Physics and the
James R. Macdonald Laboratory are committed to
excellence in
undergraduate and
graduate education.
Among JRML's initiatives supporting education are the James R. Macdonald Scholarship,
the Research Experience for Undergraduates, and our international
collaboration with the Technische Universität in Dresden.
The lab typically supports about 15
graduate research assistants, and we are always
seeking new graduate students interested in either
theoretical or
experimental
AMO physics.
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Eli Parke, DAMOP undergraduate presenter and 2006-07 Macdonald Scholar.
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Undergraduates are actively participating in our research.
Work by Mat Leonard was selected for presentation at the
Undergraduate Research Symposium
of DAMOP 2005 in Lincoln, while research by
Eli Parke was featured at
DAMOP 2007 in Calgary. Both Eli
and Mat are also recipients of the James R. Macdonald Scholarship.
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The family of James R. Macdonald has established scholarships in his
memory to be awarded to outstanding undergraduate Physics majors.
Our current Macdonald Scholar is Eli Parke, pictured above; last
year's scholar, Mat Leonard, is pictured at right.
Recent Macdonald Scholars include:
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| 06-07 | Eli Parke |
99-00 | Jeff Pruitt |
| 05-06 | Mat Leonard |
98-99 | Jeff Pruitt
Michael Witthoeft |
| 04-05 | Aaron Wech |
97-98 | John Carpenter
Michael Witthoeft |
| 03-04 | Kyle Wilson |
96-97 | Adam Beehler
Jason Parks |
| 02-03 | Aaron Wech |
95-96 | Michelle Munsun |
| 01-02 | Jonathan Kurche |
94-95 | Flint Pierce |
| 00-01 | Jesus Hernandez |
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Mat Leonard, DAMOP undergraduate presenter and 2005-06 Macdonald Scholar.
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The Department of Physics and the J. R. Macdonald Lab at Kansas State University
offers
Research Experiences for Undergraduates
funded by the
National Science Foundation.
The program runs from the end of May to the beginning of August.
The sophomore and junior participants work directly with our various research
groups and complete a major project over the course of the summer.
Pictured above is our year 2006 REU group with their principal advisors,
Larry Weaver and
Kristan Corwin.
The final reports from recent REU classes are available on the
KSU REU web site.
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The Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Program of the JRML and the
Institute für Kern- und Atomphysik of the
Technische Universität,
Dresden, Germany have maintained
a program to train Dresden students in ion source/accelerator technology
and in AMO collision physics at Kansas State. The program started in 1992 under
the guidance of Prof. G. Zschornack of Dresden. The students work with JRML
faculty and staff over a period of three months. The students are provided
funds for travel by Dresden and are provided funds for local expenses by JRML.
Sixteen students have been trained over the last eight years in this program.
We have incorporated these students in ongoing technical and research projects,
which has satisfied their training goals and has been a benefit to the JRML
research program. Pictured below is Mike Schmidt, one of our two FY2001
trainees, working on a new off line apparatus being set up by Professor
Itzik Ben-Itzhak's group.
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