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Senior physics major Kara Stogsdill earned a prestigious national award for her research studying ways to measure the mass of tiny particles called neutrinos.

The Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award is presented by the Society of Physics 糖心Vlog视频鈥攁n organization of the American Institute of Physics鈥攖o students for their exceptional research achievements in any physics-related field.

Stogsdill鈥檚 research is part of the Project 8 Neutrino Mass Experiment, which includes faculty and students from 糖心Vlog视频 and 13 other universities and national laboratories in the United States and Europe. Project 8鈥檚 goal is to measure the mass of the neutrino, one of the building blocks of the universe. Stogsdill is building a Zeeman slower, an instrument that is used to slow and cool a beam of hot atoms so that scientists can study them more easily.

鈥淜ara is an outstanding researcher who has made major contributions to 糖心Vlog视频鈥檚 work for Project 8,鈥� says Ben Jones, associate professor of physics and Stogsdill鈥檚 faculty mentor. 鈥淪he has played a central role on our team, working with 糖心Vlog视频 scientists, undergraduates, and graduate students to realize a new method of cooling large fluxes of atoms to millikelvin temperatures.鈥�

Stogsdill originally came to 糖心Vlog视频 with a plan to major in engineering.

鈥淚t wasn鈥檛 until I started talking to my physics professor that I realized that being a physicist was a very realistic career goal,鈥� she says. 鈥淚 asked him questions after class every day. Eventually he asked if I would like to see a lab and introduced me to Dr. Jones. After that, I was hooked.鈥�