Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Every one of our undergraduate students has the opportunity to work with our faculty in their research programs, generally beginning during the freshmen year. There is also the opportunity to work with our manager of student laboratories, helping to build and repair equipment and to design student experiments. All of our sophomores, juniors, and seniors are employed by the department in some capacity. If your financial aid package includes work study, your job can be doing scientific work in our department.
We have excellent success in placing our students in summer REU and other internship programs all across the U.S.
Some of our research areas providing student opportunities are:
- Nano- and Bio-materials
Students work with faculty in areas of magnetic nanomaterials, ferroelectrics, thermoelectric materials and organic semiconductors. This hands-on research is geared toward both fundamental measurements as well as applied research in areas of electronic devices, energy and biomedical applications. - Astronomy and Astrophysics
Students observe from America's highest observatory at the summit of Mt. Evans (14,148 ft.) near Denver, during summers, pursue Honors research projects using the Student Astronomy Laboratory in the Physics Building, and use our historic 19th century refracting telescope located a few blocks from campus. Access to some of the world's most important land- and space-based telescopes is possible. - Atmospheric Spectroscopy Projects
Students participate in the identification and cataloging of spectral features from balloon-borne spectra used for the DU Atlas of High Resolution Infrared Stratospheric Infrared Absorption Spectra; in analysis of ground-based infrared solar spectra obtained under NDSC (Network for Detecting Stratospheric Change) for the quantification of tropospheric and stratospheric species; and in processing of high resolution laboratory spectra obtained at DU in support of the above projects.
January 6, 2008