SMCM students win "Most Innovative Research" award

SMCM students Henry DeGrave, Bethel Habtegiorgis and Henry Thomas  presented a talk on research done under the supervision of Dr. Charles Adler (Department of Physics and Materials Science) at the AirTalent Undergraduate Research Symposium on Wednesday, April 15.  Their talk was on “Measurement of Light Scattering from Rough Surfaces” and is part of an ongoing research collaboration with the Non-Traditional Maritime Sensing branch at the Naval Air Warfare Center – Aircraft Division (NAWCAD).  We are very proud to announce that this presentation won the “Most Innovative Research” award, among roughly fifteen teams supported by the AirTalent program from colleges and universities around the country.  The AirTalent program is sponsored by NAWCAD and The Patuxent Partnership (TPP) to promote STEM research for undergraduates and high school students; this is the third year that SMCM has been a recipient of an AirTalent grant to support our collaboration.