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Student Research Highlights

• Graduate student Azure Avery publishes new results
  

Azure Avery led a team of DU students in obtaining new measurements of thermopower and electrical resistivity of a variety of ferromagnetic films; the results have important implications in the developing field of nanomagnetism.  Avery is the first author of a new article describing this research, " Thermopower and resistivity in ferromagnetic thin films near room temperature," which appeared in the 1 March 2011 issue of Physical Review B. Graduate students Rubina Sultan and Dain Bassett, undergraduate physics major Di Wei, and Dr. Barry Zink are also authors. The work was performed in Zink's lab.   

• Astronomy students win poster prizes 

Graduate student Leah Huk and undergraduate major Charee Peters won awards for their presentations at conferences in summer 2010.  Leah's poster, titled "Linking Type IIn Supernovae with Massive Progenitors", won the graduate student poster prize at the Four Corners Meeting of the American Physical Society in Ogden, UT.  Charee's poster, titled "Celestial Explosions: Geometrically Classifying Supernovae", was honored at the national  SACNAS conference in Anaheim, CA.  Both students work with Dr. Jennifer L. Hoffman.   

• Graduate student Brian Kloppenborg publishes in Nature 

Brian Kloppenborg was first author on a paper published in the 8 April 2010 issue of Nature entitled " Infrared images of the transiting disk in the epsilon Aurigae system." The paper reports on new observations of an enigmatic binary star system made by Kloppenborg, his adviser Dr. Robert Stencel, who spearheaded the observational campaign, and several colleagues at other institutions.