2025 Sigma Pi Sigma Research Symposium

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The Fourteenth Annual Sigma Pi Sigma Undergraduate Physics Research Symposium was held on October 17, 2025 in the physics building. We had a variety of both oral and poster presentations detailing multiple areas of physics.

Prizes were given to the best three presentations and posters. We would like to congratulate the following students for their outstanding performance:

  • Oral: 1st - Grant; 2nd - Bennett ; 3rd - Sydney
  • Name: Grant
  • Title: Towards characterizing the biophysical landscape of immune cell plasma membranes with a novel modular toolbox
  • Name: Bennett
  • Title: Extraction of partial Bjorken sum from World Data and SoLID Simulations
  • Name: Sydney
  • Title: The Assembly and Testing of the Barrel Timing Layer for the CMS Experiment at the LHC

  • Poster: 1st - Nadara
  • Title: Mutli-Technique Characterization of Returned Bennu Particles in Comparison to Carbonaceous Chondrites

We would also like to give special thanks to all of our judges and participants as well as both the physics and astronomy departments as a whole for dedicating their time to make this symposium possible.