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These projects fully allow our undergraduate students the opportunity to actively engage in current scientific research. We are proud that more than a hundred students have been  involved in the research program at Coe College. Our success is measured by that of our students. Virtually all (about 80 %) of the graduates from the program have moved on to quality graduate schools in either physics, materials science or an allied science or mathematics. Recent graduates have gone to graduate school at: Harvard, Georgia Tech, MIT, Lehigh, UCLA, Florida State, Stanford, Colorado State, Northwestern, Minnesota, Washington University (St. Louis), Iowa State University, University of Illinois, Vanderbilt University, Brown University, Colorado School of Mines, State University of New York at Stonybrook, Kansas State University, University of Iowa, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and others. Since the project has begun, a dozen of our physics research students read more... |
Research 
The physics department at Coe College has had an activeundergraduate research program since 1980. Over 150 students from 19 countries have participated. We have two main areas of research: glass science and musical acoustics.
physics department at Coe College. For the past eighteen years more than seventy students have been a part of the glass research group where we been studying physical properties and short range order in a host of oxide glass systems. Also, we have specialized in tough to form glasses including those with large concentrations of alkali ions. In this piece I will describe how the typical students work their way through four years of participation in this program. 