Keep up to date on the latest news and events about the TREND program!
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MyPhysStory explores the future of science through the stories of nuclear physicists from a variety of backgrounds and communities. Students, faculty and staff describe their journeys, their passions for discovery and their goals within the field. Check out the video now!
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Three students (Miguel Vargas-Calderon, Leonith Rodriguez and Daniel Rascon Romo, left to right) presented posters of their research at the 6th Joint Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics and the Physical Society of Japan on the Big Island of Hawaii. Here they are enjoying their victory after a long poster session of sharing their research!
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Leonith Rodriguez and Keslyn Stonum both presented their summer research at the Fall 2023 Joint Meeting of TSAPS, TSAAPT and SPS Zone 13 in San Angelo, Tx.
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Diana Carrasco-Rojas is the first-author on a new paper published in the journal Physical Review C. The publication (based on her work as part of the TREND program) studies the excited states of 23Na above the proton threshold in order to determine whether previous observed (but unconfirmed) excited states exist. D.P. Carrasco, et.al. Searching for resonance states in 22Ne(p,γ)23Na, Phys. Rev. C 108, 045802 – Published 13 October 2023
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Daniela Ramirez Chavez (TREND Alumni) starts her Ph. D. program at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University. Congratulations Daniela!
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The summer research has come to an end with TREND students closing out their time giving poster presentations at the TAMU Summer Undergraduate Research Poster Session hosted but LAUNCH. Students from various summer research programs all around the Texas A&M campus gather together to present the results of their summer research to colleagues and faculty from multiple disciplines. This event caps off a fantastic summer of learning and discovery for our students.
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TREND Alumni Diana Carrasco-Rojas begins her journey pursuing Medical Physics at M.D. Anderson this summer. She is entering her graduate program already being awarded the Robert J. Shalek Graduate Fellowship in Medical Physics (pg 14). Congrats Diana!
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For the second year in a row TREND students have presented physics demos at the First Friday Event in downtown Bryan, Tx (July 2023) alongside colleagues from the Cyclotron REU program. The students perform live physics demos for the local community at an outdoor interactive event including music, art and more. The students wowed spectators with friction phonebooks (seen below), dry ice and liquid nitrogen experiments and more!
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Summer ’23 cohort has started! Seven students from around the state of Texas have arrived at the Cyclotron Institute to begin a summer of research. We can’t wait to see what they discover!
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Applications for 2023 are now open! Click here for more information about the application process.
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Prof Larry May presented on the TREND program at the Texas Section of the American Physical Society, Commerce, TX, March 2023:
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Daniela Ramirez-Chavez has completed her Masters of Science in Physics from UTEP (Dec. 2022)! Way to go Daniela!
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Six of our students presented their research at the Fall Meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society in New Orleans, LA (October 2022). Five presented posters as part of the Conference Experience for Undergraduates while Daniela Ramirez-Chavez presented a talk. TREND students supporting Daniela during her talk are pictured here:
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Diana Carrasco-Rojas was invited to present her work at the Virtual Joint Nuclear and Astrophysics Seminar series hosted by the Texas A&M University Cyclotron Institute in Sept. 2022. Congrats Diana!
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The hands-on student experience at the Cyclotron Institute during Summer 2022 has come to a close. We can’t wait to see all the great work our students will continue at their home institutions during the following Fall and Spring semesters!
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TREND students presented physics demos at the First Friday Event in downtown Bryan, Tx (July 2022). First Friday is an outdoor event with local art, live music, performances and unique interactive events. Our students got the opportunity to share their knowledge and love of physics with the local community through a variety of physics demos – like conservation of angular momentum by spinning in a chair or suspending bubbles in the air using dry ice!
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June 2022 – Our TRENDsetters have arrived in College Station to begin their Summer research experience. Ten weeks of intense hands-on research experience with an established research group at the Cyclotron Institute is beginning now. Welcome TRENDsetters!
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TREND Virtual Kickoff meeting via Zoom on 3/10/22: we’ve officially started TREND! Students are meeting their TAMU research mentors and getting settled in with their local institution mentors
