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This summer, junior physics undergraduate student Emily Foley will be interning at Los Alamos National Laboratory through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program. She will contribute to a project involving the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), a cutting edge experiment at the forefront of high energy physics research.

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Einsteinian Links

http://www.autodidactproject.org/my/einstein3.html

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/04/albert-einstein-civil-rights-activist/

https://libguides.lincoln.edu/historic

https://www.nytimes.com/1946/05/04/archives/einstein-is-honored-by-lincoln-university.html

Josiah Brinson, junior physics student at Wake Forest, will be conducting research this summer at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Optical Sciences Division, in Washington, DC. This opportunity is made possible by the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP). Josiah will be working in the field of optical spectroscopy, a research area he has already begun to explore by working in the laboratory of Professor Ajay Kandada. Congratulations Josiah!

Undergraduate researcher Jarlem Lopez Morel from the Jurchescu lab has been awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program fellowship to perform research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The 11 week NIST SURF Gaithersburg program will run from May 22 to August 3, 2023. Harlem will work in the Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML). Congratulations Jarlem!

Professor Stephen Baker recently published an article in Communications Medicine titled “Plasma from patients with pulmonary embolism show aggregates that reduce after anticoagulation”. The intriguing background story behind this study can be accessed here.

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Professor Baker’s study investigates the formation of blood clots in patients with pulmonary embolism. Pulmonary embolism is a life threatening condition which occurs when a blood clot lodges in the artery of a lung, stopping blood flow to that part of the lung. Baker’s study found that small atypical aggregates consisting of fibrin proteins and platelet cells exist in the blood of people with pulmonary embolism, an occurrence which has also been observed in patients with COVID-19. This discovery could help to understand the cause of diseases associated with blood clotting and hopefully to formulate new approaches to treatment.