Summer Research & Internship Opportunities

2024

Seitz Award, University of Southampton, United Kingdom: Research the accretion process of systems such as black holes and neutron stars. by using data from space-based NASA telescopes.
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Seitz Award, Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan: Research on wave propagation in two-dimensional topological insulators from an impurity
Butler Summer Institute: The destruction of stars at the center of the Milky Way galaxy
NSF REU Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics: Solar Physics
Research with Physics professor: Collecting data and monitoring SARA telescopes in Kitt Peak, AZ and Cerro Tololo, Chile
Independent Study with Physics professor: Fixing patient movement in MRIs with inverse Fourier transformations
Emerging Technologies at Renew, Wisconsin: Renewable energy
NSF REU University of Rochester: Researching cosmology
Ed Carpenter Racing, Indianapolis, IN: internship as engineer
Autobridge, Inc. Wixom, MI: internship to develop a product to take to market and organizing ISO quality management certification
USAA: internship as a software engineer
Crane Naval Base Department of Defense: internship with X-Force National Security Innovation Network

Butler Summer Institute: Research focused on the applications of chaos theory in Earth’s atmosphere by using the Community Earth System Model (CESM) to model the possible benefits and negative effects artificially generating clouds (cloud seeding) with sea salt may have on Earth’s climate.
PTS Diagnostics: CAD/3D modeling as a manufacturing design engineer
REU – University of Florida: Simulations and measurements of coupled low-dimensional system in the quantum regime
UPMC Children’s Hospital: Research on amount of radiation absorbed at skin level during abdominal X-ray imaging and how this value compares to the air kerma values that are used to estimate radiation exposure
Ed Carpenter Racing, Indianapolis, IN: internship as engineer

Butler Summer Institute: Galactic Nuclei and Binary Black Hole Formation
Butler Summer Institute: Create a theoretical model for a laser using bound states in the continuum with capabilities to easily tune over a wide range of wavelengths
Butler Summer Institute: Finding a relationship between properties of a magnetic impurity in a topological insulator and the local conductance
REU Boston University: Using NASA’s TESS Mission to search for extremely low mass white dwarf stars

Butler Summer Institute: Study of variable stars in globular clusters M14
Butler Chase Scholarship Program: Trimming Grover’s quantum search algorithm
Northrop Grunman: Worked on the Archinaut program that involved additive manufacturing and assembly in space on a small satellite
Sandia National Labs: Circuit development of a power control unit
Callaway Golf Company: Studied aerodynamics, product development, material analysis, and kinematics
Florida Power & Light: Worked with the senior reliability engineer and assist with day-to-day operations of the plant

REU-U of South Florida: Oncology
Mol-Son LLC, Mattawan, MI: Worked with 3D modeling, stress analysis, and simulation tests on computer using Creo Parametric and other computer sofware programs
REU-Columbia University (Nevis Laboratory): Particle-physics research using data from ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
Seitz Foundation, China: Non-linear optics
Miller Eads Co.: Worked on automating industrial processes

Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory/Duke University NSF-REU: Nuclear physics research
Seitz Foundation, Spain: Mathematical Representation of Resonances
Seitz Foundation, China: Eclipse and binary stars
Butler Summer Institute: RR Lyrae Variable Stars in the Globular Star Cluster M14
Butler Summer Institute: Wireless energy transfer

Miami University of Ohio-NSF REU: Transgenic Mouse Models for Pancreatic Cancer (classified as biophysical chemistry)
Butler Summer Institute: Multi-color Photometric Study of the Eclipsing Binary Star V1062 Her
Butler Summer Institute: Nonlinear Wave Propagation Along the Earth’s Surface from a Source Array with Varying Source Amplitudes
Butler Summer Institute: Understanding the Nature of RR Lyrae Stars in the Blobular Cluster NGC 6584
Butler Summer Institute: Producing quantum coherence between quantum dots at room temperatures

Seitz Foundation, China: The First Multi-color Photometric Study of the Short-Period Contact Eclipsing Binary DE Lyn
Seitz Foundation, Japan: Creation of entangled electron pairs along separate leads in the Anderson model
Butler Summer Institute: Investigating Atomic Transitions in Noble Gasses by Laser Optogalvanic Spectrosopy
Butler Summer Institute: Making chiroptical ionic liquids, analysis of electron behavior in a velocity select
Butler Summer Institute: Optogalvanic Effects
Butler University: Reducing recombination losses in solar cells through quantum coherence in quantum-dot arrays