Valpo Senior Brook Burbridge Wins Presentation Award at CUWiP

This January (2024) several Valpo physics and astronomy majors attended the Conference of Undergraduate Women in Physics held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

They got a selfie with Noted physicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, discoverer of the first radio pulsars in 1967.

Conference of Undergraduate Women in Physics
Taken at the CUWiP, Jan 2024, with Jocelyn Bell Burnell (second from left). Valpo students (from left): Brook Burbridge, Kayla Bass, Abigail Proskurniak, Peyton McCallips

Valpo Senior Brook Burbridge’s poster presentation was awarded a presentation award:

  • Alyssa Matthews, Northwestern University 
  • Audrey Scott, University of Chicago 
  • Brook Burbridge, Valparaiso University
  • Camellia Schwartzman, Macalester College
  • Casey Smith, Lewis University
  • Gunwati Agrawal, Loyola University
  • Olivia Laske, Macalester College 
  • Olivia Lucas, Indiana Wesleyan University
  • Sherry Wang, Northwestern University 
  • Shreya Majumdar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Sophia Davis, University of Michigan 

Congratulations, Brook!