May 15, 2001

WKU Physics Majors Obtain Summer Research Fellowships

Bowling Green, Ky. - Nine Western Kentucky University physics majors have obtained research fellowships for the 2001 summer term.

Eight of the fellowships are sponsored by the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program that provides opportunities for undergraduates to join research projects each summer. The fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis to students from throughout the country.

Students from the WKU Department of Physics and Astronomy who received NSF-REU summer fellowships and their host schools are: Angela Adams, an Elizabethtown junior, University of Rhode Island; Gavi Begtrup, a senior from Nashville, Tenn., University of Houston; Michael Farinelli, an Oldtown senior, University of Florida; Lindsay Hopper, a senior from Lafayette, Tenn., Ohio State University; Srdan Hrkalovic, a Bowling Green junior, University of Louisville; Scott Little, a Pikeville junior, University of Louisville; Kenneth Purcell, a Henderson junior, Florida State University; Wes Ryle, a Burlington sophomore, Vanderbilt University.

Joshua James, a Bowling Green sophomore, received a summer fellowship sponsored by the American Association of Physics in Medicine. He will work in the Department of Physics and the Medical School at Vanderbilt University.

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