This year’s Daphne Chang Memorial Award for excellence in undergraduate research goes to Katrina Miller. Katrina's faculty mentor is Prof. Phil Barbeau. The award comes with a certificate as well as a monetary award. For more about Daphne Chang and the award begun in her memory, please click here.
Katrina Miller is a Duke undergraduate Physics major, class of 2016. Katrina has also been involved in a number of projects in The Barbeau Group's lab. These days she focuses her work on developing a gas-based radiation tracking and imaging detector. The technique should expand on a number of detector concepts used in dark matter searches, medical imaging and Compton imagers. This work is supported in part by her Mellon-Mays fellowship.
