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Brothers Awarded Top Science Fellowships for Grad School

Ari and Zak Blumer

Ohio University Honors Tutorial College engineering physics majors Ari Blumer and Zak Blumer have accepted graduate fellowships to study in the Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D. program at Ohio State University in Columbus. Ari Blumer received the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, which provides three years of financial […]

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April 30, 2018 at 4:07 pmNews

Zak Blumer ǀ ‘Why I Study Solar Thermal Technologies’

Zak Blumer

By Zak Blumer ’18 B.S. Engineering Physics, Honors Tutorial College During most of my childhood, my father served as the director of The Wilds—one of the largest wildlife conservation centers in North America. Living in eastern Ohio, I was surrounded by nature and wildlife, and consequently grew up with a […]

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April 2, 2018 at 7:30 amNews

11 Undergraduates Present at Society of Physics Students Annual Conference

11 Undergraduates Present at Society of Physics Students Annual Conference

Ohio University’s Society of Physics Students recently hosted the 8th annual SPS Research Conference at OHIO’s Athens campus. Eleven undergraduate students presented an overview of their projects undertaken during the previous summer. The topics ranged in scale from supernovae to solar thermal application of electrospinning fibers. The presentations were reviewed […]

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April 10, 2017 at 7:23 pmIn Class Research

Zak Blumer | The Electrospinning and Investigation of Titanium Nitride Particles in High-Temperature Polymer Fibers

Zak Blumer

Zak Blumer presented “The Electrospinning and Investigation of Titanium Nitride Particles in High-Temperature Polymer Fibers” at the 2017 Ohio University Society of Physics Students Research Conference held in March. Blumer worked under the direction of Dr. Martin Kordesch to fabricate a mat of electrospun high-temperature polymer fibers loaded with titanium […]

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April 10, 2017 at 6:18 pmResearch

Zak Blumer | Building an Evacuated Tube Solar Collector

Zak Blumer and his evacuated tube solar collector

By Zak Blumer (B.S. HTC Engineering Physics, Class of 2018) My work under Dr. Martin Kordesch’s supervision in Physics & Astronomy involves determining the efficiency of models of concentrating thermal solar power and comparing them to other models in order to find the most efficient model. When I began my research, […]

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May 20, 2016 at 4:33 pmResearch