# Presentation: 484377

## Montana State University REU Site Program: A Materials Research EducationJohn Neumeier and Yves Idzerda, Montana State University - Bozeman  DMR0244058

* **For ten weeks in the summer of 2005, we hosted 9 REU participants (chosen from 46 applicants) and 3 RET     participants (chosen from 7 applicants).  *
* *_*Demographics*_*: REU participants - 9 total - 5 Male, 4 Female (1 Native American).*
*                            **RET participants - 3 total - 2 Male (1 Native American), 1 Female.*
* *_*Activities*_*: Laboratory Research - begins on the first day of the program.*
* **Weekly Meeting - journal club to investigate current topics in condensed matter physics*
*                             **and Nobel prize winning research.*
* **End of Program Presentations - each student gives a seminar or poster presenting their results.*
* **Social Activities - Two Picnics, Hikes, a Whitewater Rafting Trip. *

- REU participants and some of
- the advisors in 2005.

- Desireé Peone, from the tribal college
- Salish Kootenai, presents the results
- of her summer project.

- Whitewater rafting on the Yellowstone River 7/16/2005.

**Notes:**
This was the 3rd year of our program.  We had 25 students (total) and 6 high school teachers participate in the three years.  We develop the group into a close-knit entity early on by planning a number of social events and outings starting in the first week.  A weekly meeting is used to broaden participant knowledge of current topics in condensed matter physics and to inform them of some exciting discoveries through discussion of Nobel Prize winning work.

## Montana State University REU Site Program: A Materials Research EducationJohn Neumeier and Yves Idzerda, Montana State University - Bozeman  DMR0244058

- _Michael Hess_, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR, **Frequency-Doubled Quantum Dot External Cavity Laser**
- _Elizabeth Huynh_, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, **Single Crystal Growth of Pr****0.5****Sr****0.5****MnO****3**
- _Randy Krogstad_, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, **Copper Capacitance Dilatometer for Thermal Expansion Measurements with Sub-Angstrom Resolution**
- _Jamie Lomax_, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, **Oxygen-18 Uptake and Nuclear Reaction Analysis on Zirconium and Yttria Stabilized Zirconia**
- _Tracy Melzer_, University of Montana, Missoula, MT,** Reshaping the Gaussian Beam Distribution for Applications in Quantum Computing**
- _Desiree Peone_, Salish and Kootenai College, Pablo, MT, **Two Photon Optic Storage Materials**
- _Cary L. Pint_, University of North Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, **Theoretical Description of the Growth and Multilayer Behavior of Ag/Al and Ti/Al Using BFS**
- _Nicholas Santorsola_, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, **Labview Interface for the Study of Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell Materials**
- _Tyler Templeton_, Lyon College, Batesville, AR, **Interaction Energies and Forces Between a Colloidal Probe and Planar Surface in Electrolyte Solutions**

**  ****Teachers and their research projects**
- _Timothy Lee Buchanan_, Physical Science Teacher, Belgrade Middle School, Belgrade, MT, **Deposition of CrAlN **
**Coatings by Magnetron Sputtering**
- _Kenneth Crawford_, Tribal College Teacher, Blackfeet Community College, Browning, MT, **Crazy Glue and Bacterial **
**Adhesion for AFM Studies of Bacteria**
- _Amy Williams_, Middle School Science Teacher, Headwaters Academy, Bozeman, MT, **Liaison Facilitated K-12 **
**Outreach for the Hard Sciences**

**Montana State University REU Site Program: A Materials Research Education**John Neumeier and Yves Idzerda, Montana State University - Bozeman  DMR0244058

**Notes:**
On this page, all of the participants and the titles for their summer research projects are shown.  This gives a sense of the breadth of the research.  Note that most of these students come from colleges and universities that are not research intensive.