Hannah Nelson C’20 soaked up all the science she could as an audience member at last winter’s Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics. This January, the physics major will return, only this time as a presenter.
Nelson will be sharing research she con-ducted last summer at Louisiana State University through the Research Experience for Undergraduate Students program. While there, she helped to finish building a nuclear physics detector that’s part of a larger project at Michigan State University.
“Going into that internship, I didn’t know what type of research I wanted to do or if I wanted to get a PhD,” Nelson says.
Last October, Nelson presented on her research at the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society conference in Hawaii, where they also hosted the Conference Experience for Undergraduates.
“It’s an adult science fair,” Nelson says. “I’m so excited to present my research in a more legitimate professional setting.”
Nelson is also the president of the Physics Club at North Park. In conjunction with North Park’s new Women in STEM club, she hopes to give physics students at North Park experiences at places like Argonne Labs.