Pratibha Gautam Staff Writer Ty Naquin, a sophomore physics major from Millbrook, has received a fully funded research opportunity in Paris this summer. Along with his travel, food and housing expenses, Naquin will receive a stipend of $5,000. The Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), called Optics in the City of Lights, is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS) in collaboration with different French institutions. These institutions will host a total of eight students for eight weeks during the summer. According to the University of…
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Students pursue summer research in the sciences
Rakshak Adhikari Staff Writer Madelynn Lytle, a senior math major from Blountstown, Florida, spent the summer working on visual biophysics in the University of Alabama at Birmingham through a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. She developed a model of light propagation and capture in a photoreceptor cell using a matrix laboratory (MATLAB) with the purpose of advancing the current understanding of retinal physiology. “Real research is intense,” said Lytle. “One day everything plans out nicely, while the next day you may find out that all you did was wrong.”…
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