A Physics Departmental Honors Seminar was given by graduating physics major, Brian Steinkamp , in spring, 2000. The seminar was on research done during the preceding year under the guidance of faculty member Dr. Charles Brodbeck. The goal of the research was to determine if a correlation exists between the EPR signal intensity and the electrical conductivity of the samples. Senior physics major Laura Guirl was awarded a grant to participate in the Summer 2000 Research Program at Purdue University. On returning to school this fall, she gave a talk to the Physics Department describing her work.
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Sophomore Meghan Gagliardi co-presented a project at the 2000 Argonne Undergraduate Research Symposium, in November, 2000. This presentation described research done during summer 2000, led by Dr. Martina Schmeling of the Loyola Chemistry Department. Senior Emily Frank has been awarded a Loyola Mulcahy grant for 2000-2001 to investigate how the parameters of brass instrument mouthpieces affect mechanical performance of the instrument. Although brass horns expel the overtone series of an open ended column, they behave like closed-ended columns, but the flare of the bell and the extra length of the mouthpiece modify the frequencies at the high and low end of the range. The project will investigate mathematical models of these phenomena.