BSU junior selected for third physics internship

From Staff Reports

April 30, 2008 02:27 pm

— Krista White has earned her third physics internship in three years.
White, who is completing her junior year at Ball State University as a physics/astronomy and geology major, is a 2005 graduate of Logansport High School. She hopes to obtain a doctorate in physics and become a planetary research scientist.
Dr. Charles Kankelborg, professor at the Montana State University, notified White of her selection as a paid intern for the Montana State University Solar Physics Research Experiences for Undergraduates program for Summer 2008.
The internship will involve optics hardware development for the Moses II rocket to be launched in 2009. White will be working in the Space Optics and Space Environment Laboratory at Montana State.
During the past two summers, White was selected from several hundred applicants to participate in two different types of research projects. The second involved hands-on research using the University of Arkansas’s multi-million dollar Andromeda Chamber to study the sublimation rate of frozen carbon dioxide in simulated Mars conditions.
White traveled in March to the 39th Lunar and Planetary Society meeting in Houston to discuss her carbon dioxide research. It was her third such trip, having presented research at the American Astronomical Society’s 207th meeting in Seattle, Wash., in 2006 and at the 39th Division of Planetary Science in Orlando, Fla., in 2007.
White has been named to Ball State University’s dean’s list, and she has also been selected for membership into the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and Alpha Lambda Delta. She is a member of the American Astronomical Society, Geological Society of America and the Planetary Division and Solar Division of the AAS, the Association of Women in Science and the American Association of Variable Star Observers.
White was honored her senior year at Logansport High School with the Frank and Rhoda Cook Education Scholarship, Charles W. and Phyllis J. Kingery Scholarship, Gailbreath Scholarship, Fay Riddleberger Scholarship, Olive Wildermuth Scholarship and the American Legion Auxiliary Scholarship.