Summer Research
This page contains somewhat-complete (we're working on it) information about internships held by WIS members during the summers of 1995 and 1996:

Summer 1995

• Linda Loman ('96) -- Battelle at Hanford
  Linda spent her summer working with Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, a technique used to determine the structure and characteristics of paramagnetic samples, as well as electron spin echo (ESE). ESE is a time domain spectroscopy occuring when various pulse pattern techniques,, such as ESE envelope modulation, reveal important information about the particle's structure. Linda's research included gaining familiarity with the EPR spectrometer and writing a program that would model the frequencies where energy transitions were thought to occur in a S=1/2 , I=1 system.
• Betsy Raymond ('97) -- University of Connecticut Physics
• Kelly Ray ('97) and Mary Margaret Callahan ('97) -- Andrea Dobson at Whitman
  Mary Margaret and Kelly spent the summer looking at "The Variance of Stellar Magnetic Activity of Lower Main Sequence Stars over Differing Timescales". By plotting the pooled variance of the star's activity over a logarithmic axis of time, they were able to extract data (such as the rotation period and activity cycle) of the star. Mary Margaret and Kelly spent a lot of time on the computer, retreiving and manipulating data. They also spent some time using the Internet as a research tool.
• Melinda Nickels ('97) -- Kurt Hoffman at Whitman
  Melinda spent the summer doping fullerenes with erbium and looking at their subsequest emissions, which involved lots of lasers, graphite, and inhaling too many toxic fumes for her own good.
  
• Becca McMullen ('97) -- University of Alaska, Fairbanks
  Two words: Aurora Borealis

Summer 1996

• Becca McMullen ('97) -- Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
• Linda Loman ('96) -- Lawrence Livermore National Lab
• Sandra Sattler ('98) -- University of California at San Diego
• Kelly Ray ('97) -- Goddard Space Flight Center
• Betsy Raymond ('97) -- University of Oregon Physics
• Jessica Palmer ('98) -- Washington State University

Because she who maintains these pages is an astronomy major, this page is currently biased towards those who are physics majors. If there is someone or somthing that should be given credit on these pages, please let me know! -KR

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