Nick Young

Bio

I’m a PhD candidate in physics education research and computational mathematics, science, and engineering at Michigan State University. My research focuses on understanding the graduate school admissions process in physics and proposing ideas departments can implement to make the process more equitable. Outside of the lab, I am the founder of PERbites, a platform for sharing short summaries of recent Science, Technology, Education, and Mathematics (STEM) education research with students, educators, and research – we recently celebrated our 3-year anniversary! In my free time, I enjoy visiting the various state parks around Michigan and building the latest NASA themed Lego Set. I’m excited to have the opportunity to write for the Wichita Eagle this summer as an AAAS Mass Media Fellow!

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Clips

• Your internet may soon be available to anyone nearby. Should you be worried?

• Kansas astronomer helps discover new planet outside our solar system

• Today’s International Joke Day: What you need to know to tell a great one

• Hail, strong thunderstorms possible in Wichita area, with a cold snap on the way

• Wichita State team developing app to help blind and visually impaired readers

• Should we be working fewer hours a week? A new study says yes

• Need a telescope? Now you can borrow one from the Wichita Public Library

• Football-sized goldfish are ‘taking over’ lakes in Minnesota. What about Kansas? 

• New study answers whether energy income increases farm investment

• New study finds most relationships start between friends rather than strangers

• Wichita State professor to build detector to study most elusive particle in the universe

• Can we make cheaper bridges? A KU professor thinks so

• Kansas researchers developing battery alternatives with nature’s ‘wonder material’

• Researchers working on vaccine for virus dubbed the “most significant threat to pork production in the whole world”

• What are playas and what can they do for Kansas farmers? New study hopes to find out

• These are the majors that earn Wichita State graduates the most

• Eating these foods might protect against cognitive decline, study finds

• Can language during surgery be more precise? A team of Midwest researchers think so

• Wichita State researcher working on alternative to facial recognition technology

• Facial recognition can be used to track disease in cows