
- Intern with the Gravitational Physics International REU (2020). Jon is Towson’s third physics major to participate in this prestigious program (after Nathan Prins in 2014 and Rachael Huxford in 2017)
- Co-winner of the Edward I. Rubendall award for Outstanding Senior in the Department of Physics, Astronomy and Geosciences (2020)
- Winner of an Edward Loh Undergraduate Scholarship (2019)
Semesters: Summer 2018 – Spring 2021
Projects:
New exact solutions of Einstein’s field equations in higher dimensions
- co-author on paper in preparation (with Ozzy Weinreb)
- prerecorded oral presentation at Towson University’s first fully online Student Research & Creative Inquiry Forum (April 2020; members of the TU community can view presentation here)
- poster presentation at 2020 APS April meeting (held online due to the Covid-19 pandemic; APS members can access poster here)
- abstract accepted for oral presentation at 9th Gulf Coast Gravity meeting (University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, March 2019; meeting cancelled due to Covid-19)
Classroom demonstration of the measurement of the speed of light
- “Excuse me, do you know how fast you’re going?” (news story, Towson University website, 2020)
Teaching circuits with an electromechanical adder
- co-author on paper (The Physics Educator 1, 1950014, 2019)
- talk at the Chesapeake Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers (Richmond, VA, October 2019) – winner, Best Student Presentation!
- supported by the Maryland Space Grant Consortium (summer 2019)
Classroom simulation of gravitational waves from orbiting binaries
- see the simulation in action here!
- prerecorded oral presentation at Towson University’s first fully online Student Research & Creative Inquiry Forum (April 2020; members of the TU community can view presentation here)
- poster presentation at PhysCon (Providence, RI, November 2019)
- invited talk, “TPT Favorites” session, 2019 AAPT Summer Meeting (Provo, UT)
- poster presentation at 2019 APS April meeting (Denver, CO)
- co-author on paper (The Physics Teacher 56, 586, 2018)
- poster presentation at Maryland Space Grant Consortium student research symposium (Johns Hopkins University Mt. Washington campus, July 2018)
- supported by a research grant from the Maryland Space Grant Consortium (summer 2018)