SUMMER RESEARCH REPORT
During my sophomore year here in Knox I was awarded a "Hughes Fellowship." This fellowship grants Knox students the opportunity to develop a summer research project under faculty supervision. As you suspect, my summer research involved Mossbauer Spectroscopy. This past summer I spent 10 weeks in the science and math building getting a hands-on introduction to Mossbauer Spectroscopy. The largest parts of my project included the construction of a new stand for a closed cycle cryostat to be used in a new spectrometer setup; the translation of fitting modules of our Mossbauer software from FORTRAN to C++; and, learning the theory behind the Mossbauer Effect and its applications -- specifically to the study of iron porphyrins.
The following is the text of a report I wrote for the faculty in charge of supervising the Hughes fellowships here in Knox:
To see the report please click here.