CONWAY, Ark. (April 29, 2016) — Five Hendrix College physics students recently presented their undergraduate research at the American Physical Society spring meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Angela Lamb ’17 of Greenwood, Arkansas, presented her research on Geophysical Measurements Using a Ring
Laser.
Elijah Kessler ’16 of St. Louis, Missouri, presented his research titled Examining Rotational Ground Motion
Induced by Tornados.
Both students were mentored by Dr. Robert Dunn, Senior Research Professor at Hendrix.
Hendrix also sent three students mentored by Dr. Savan Kharel, a ’14-‘15 Visiting Professor of Physics at Hendrix and current Visiting Professor at Davidson College.
Faisal Alnahhas ’17 of Ramallah, Palestine, and Karthik Garimella ’17 of Conway presented their computational research titled Physical Model of Segregation of E.coli Chromosomes Using
Molecular Dynamics and Computational Model for DNA Organization Mediated
by Protein Interaction in Prokaryotes, respectively.
Claude Shyaka ’16 of Kigali, Rwanda, presented Recursive Techniques for Computing Gluon Scattering in
Anti-de-Sitter Space, a theoretical investigation done with Dr. Kharel.
Hendrix students were accompanied by Dr. Jeffery Hazboun, Visiting Professor of Physics.
Dr. Hazboun presented his own work on the Null Stream Approach for Finding Sky Position of Pulsar Timing
Array Sources with collaborator Dr. Shane Larson of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics at Northwestern University.
“The physics department’s trip to the American Physical Society meeting was a huge success,” he said. “I’m not only proud of all the work our students put into the research and making their posters, but I was very impressed by their aptitude and willingness to discuss their research with the attendees of the meeting.”
The American Physical Society is the world’s largest organization of professional physicists and hosts an annual meeting in April to bring together particle physicists, nuclear physicists, and astrophysicists to share new research.
This year, Hendrix students’ work joined over 1,000 invited and contributed talks by physicists from around the globe.
About Hendrix College
Hendrix College is a private liberal arts college in Conway, Arkansas. Founded in 1876 and affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884, Hendrix is featured in Colleges That
Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges and is nationally recognized in numerous college guides, lists, and rankings for academic quality, community, innovation, and value. For more information, visit
www.hendrix.edu.