Physics
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Quick Facts:

  • ACU undergrads have been co-authors on more than 100 physics research papers. These papers have been cited over 3,400 times.
  • The monthly salary of ACU students participating in summer research is $1,500 plus the cost of housing and travel to national laboratory.
  • In the past 10 years, ACU has sent more undergraduates to Conference Experience for Undergraduates at the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society than any other university in the country.
  • ACU undergraduates have participated in nuclear physics research at 7 accelerator facilities, including Los Alamos, St. Pertersberg Nuclear Physics Institute, Brookhaven, and Fermi National Laboratories.

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CEU 2002

Chad Bircher and Melissa Jerkins discuss their posters at CEU 2002

Conference Experience for Undergraduates

The goal of the CEU is to provide a capstone conference experience for undergraduate students who have conducted research in nuclear physics by allowing them to present their research to the larger professional community and to one another.  CEU lasts four days and is held in conjunction with the Fall Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting of the American Physical Society in locations such as Hawaii, Williamsburg, and Jefferson National Laboratory.  Students interested in attending must submit abstracts of their research, and the top applicants receive travel and lodging scholarships.      

While at CEU, students have the opportunity to attend a variety of lectures given by some of the world's leading nuclear, particle, and high energy physicists.  Students present their own research in a poster session attended by DNP members, and occasionally an ACU student is even asked to give a lecture at DNP. 

CEU gives students a wonderful opportunity to interact with experienced physicists and prominent professors at graduate institutions, as well as other students from around the country.  ACU students always enjoy going to CEU because they meet new friends, grow even closer to each other and their professors, and learn about many exciting developments in the world of physics.

View several CEU abstracts submitted by recent ACU students:  Abstracts

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Larry Isenhower gives his CEU presentation for the Physics Seminar class