CORNELL LABORATORY FOR ACCELERATOR-BASED SCIENCES AND EDUCATION

2015 SRCCS Posters and Photos

During the summer of 2015 we had four students from local community colleges joining our research as part of the NSF funded SRCCS (Summer Research for Community College Students) program.

SUMMER 2015 PARTICIPANTS

Student: Spenser Mann, Developing superconducting devices to measure cosmic microwave background. Mentors: Mike Niemack and Shawn Henderson
Student: Aaron Lusby, Building replicas of historical electron gun vacuum tubes. Mentor: Karl Smolenski
Student: Jeffrey Branigan, Design, prototyping and testing of cryogenic temperature sensors. Mentors: John Dobbins, Eric Smith and Peter Quigley
Student: Devin Sonne, Integrating x-ray fluorescence capabilities into secondary science curriculum. Mentors: Lora Hine, Eva Luna, Matt Ward and Arthur Woll

POSTERS

Participants in the SRCCS program give a short presentation after three weeks introducing their research projects and discussing the research plans for the summer. Here are the poster presentations given at the conclusion of the 2015 SRCCS program:

• Jeffrey Branigan
• Aaron Lusby
• Devin Sonne
• Spencer Mann