Matthew Stoneking, assistant professor of physics, has received a three-year $225,000 research grant from the Department of Energy's Plasma Physics Junior Faculty Development Program and a $37,070 Cottrell College Science Award from Research Corporation of Tucson, Arizona.
The grants will support Stoneking's research interests in plasma physics, the study of hot, ionized gases. He is investigating the equilibrium and stability properties of pure electron plasmas contained in a toroidal--doughnut-shaped--magnetic field.
"Lawrence is one of only two or three liberal arts colleges in the country where undergraduate physics students can participate in experimental plasma-physics research," Stoneking says. "This is a great opportunity for our students to apply and extend their understanding of physics acquired in the classroom to real cutting-edge research problems."
Stoneking joined the Lawrence faculty in 1997 after a two-year postdoctoral research associate appointment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his bachelor's degree in physics at Carleton College and his Ph.D. in physics at the UW-Madison.
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