2016-17 SPS Chapter Research Award Recipients

The following SPS chapters have received Chapter Research Awards to fund chapter research projects. The awards provide calendar year grants to support local chapter activities that are deemed imaginative and likely to contribute to the strengthening of the SPS program. The awards are funded by generous donations from members of the SPS and Sigma Pi Sigma community.

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Cleveland State University

Deducing size and shape of Gold Nanorods in solution from Depolarized Dynamic Light Scattering data

Loyola Marymount University

Quantum Droplets: Pilot Wave Phenomena

Northern Virginia Community College

Atmospheric Muons as a Probe for the Higgs Vacuum Energy and of the Lead Stopping Power

Southeast Missouri State University

Hybrid Photo-Magnetic Actuation for Target Specific Killing of Damaged Cells

Texas Lutheran University

Thermal Imaging for Determining Heat Loss From Structures on TLU Campus

United States Air Force Academy

Collisional Processes in Alkali-Buffer Gas Systems for Alkali Laser Development

University of Kansas

KUbeSat Primary Cosmic Ray Detector (KUbeSat PCRD)

William Jewell College

Shaping Analysis of Magnetic Ferrofluid