(Left to right: Chris Hilgenberg, Jon Gilbert, Tyler Dodge)

There were 20 outstanding student presentation awards given at the 2016 Joint Meeting of the Four Corners and Texas Sections of the American Physical Society in Las Cruces, NM.  This represents 10% of the student presentations.  CSU had eight students giving talks and posters, and three of them won awards.  Congratulations to all the students and the awardees.

Undergraduate Posters:

Tyler Dodge, Colorado State University (Advisor:  Kate Ross)
Towards using Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy to investigate Spin-Lattice Couplings in Magnetic Materials

Graduate Talks:

Jonathan Gilbert, Colorado State University (Advisor: Jake Roberts)
Novel Cooling of Ultracold Atoms using Spatially Selective Optical Pumping

Christopher Hilgenberg, Colorado State University (Advisor:  Robert Wilson)
Cosmic Ray Tagger for the Short-Baseline Neutrino Program