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JENNY LORRAINE NIELSEN'S (VERY EXCITING, PLEASANT TO READ) PROFESSIONAL INFO
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NEW: 2011 Chambliss Medal
Recipient, 217th Meeting of AAS.
Plus: My Boss (and my back) featured on Fox News, Kansas City:
~ Curriculum Vitae
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2010
Bachelor of Science in Physics, UMKC, summa cum laude, with minor in
mathematics and statistics.
The Mandatory Research
Experience:
Programming
Proficiency: Perl, Mathematica,
IRAF, some Fortran, Java, Visual Basic, and SCPI. Can work in Unix.
Also on a
more artsy note, Photoshop, HTML, Corel Painter XI.
~ PUBLICATIONS ~
Research
Related:
***Multiple Papers with Galaxy Evolution Group,
UMKC, In Progress / Pending***
Microcosmic Forests: An
Investigation of Protein Crystallization using ESEM, Contact AFM and Optical
Microscopy Lucerna, Honors Undergraduate Journal of University of
Missouri-Kansas City
The Heart is a Dustboard: Abu'l Wafa
Al-Buzjani, Dissection, Construction, and the Dialogue Between Art and
Mathematics in Medeival Islamic Culture -
LOCI: Convergence +
The Sosland Journal + HomSigmaa
Web
Winner, 2010 HomSigmaa National History of Mathematics Papers Competition of the Mathematics Association of America
Winner,
2010 Isaac W. Davis Essay Competition - Advanced Category
More Liberal Artsy
Stuff:
Recording
the Soul's Journey: Life, Literacy and the Unfolding Self First Place, 2004
Ilus W. Davis Essay Competition Sosland Journal, University of Missouri-Kansas
City 2004
Battle of the Sundance: The
Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute Lucerna, Honors Undergraduate Journal of University
of Missouri-Kansas City
Featured in News: http://www.unews.com/2.4804/lucerna-lights-the-way-1.660222#2
Honors, Awards, etc
I also found some time to be secretary, and then president, of the UMKC Society of Physics Students between 2006-2010,
as well as secretary for the Culinary
Arts Student Association (CASA).