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Volume 12, Issue 1 (2024) Spring 2024

Honors Projects - Open Access

Ammonia Emission in the Milky Way Galactic Bar Dust Lanes
Charles G. Burton

Variability of High-Degree Modes over Multiple Solar Cycles Using Local Helioseismic Data from GONG
Nicholas Cebula, Sushanta Tripathy, Kiran Jain, and John M. Cannon

The Hodgkin-Huxley Model for Neuron Action Potentials: A Computational Study
Uditi Chandrashekhar

Simulation of Polymerization on Surfaces: Implications for Abiogenesis
Sylvia Greene

Linking the Population of Binary Black Holes with the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background
Olivia X. Laske

Strain methods for changing local electric field gradient in BaFe2As2
Caleb Williams

Honors Project On-Campus Access Only

Mapping beyond-Landau phase transitions in 1+1 dimensional U (1) quantum field theories
Seth A. Buesing

Capstones

Investigation of tantalum sodium lead borate glass using laser ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (LITOF-MS)
Siri Erickson-Green

Probing Charge Recombination in Organic Solar Cells
Ally C. Hurd, Awwad Alotaibi, Acacia Patterson, Obaid Alqahtani, James Doyle, and Brian Akira Collins

Effects of Post-Deposition Annealing on Room Temperature Deposited Zinc Oxide
Ishan Rayen

Carrier Mobility in Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite Solar Cells: Mobility Versus Composition in Spin Coated and Vapor Deposited Samples
Max A. Zinman and James Heyman

Column Density map for the pilot region using the NH3 (1,1) transition.

Editor

James Heyman

Professor,

Physics and Astronomy

Macalester College

Cover Photo

Image courtesy of Charles Burton, Ammonia Emission in the Milky Way Galactic Bar Dust Lanes