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2020 LeRoy Apker Award Winners Reflect on Undergrad Research and Pandemic Presentations
By Leah Poffenberger
In an effort to provide encouragement to young physicists with potential for future discoveries in physics, each year APS presents the LeRoy Apker Award to two recipients for outstanding undergraduate research. In a typical year, eight finalists are invited to Washington, DC, to present their research to a panel of judges, but the 2020 selection meeting in August saw finalists making their case over Zoom.
Despite the curveball of having to go fully online during a pandemic, all of the 2020 finalists gave exciting talks on their research, with two emerging as winners. EliseAnne C. Koskelo (Pomona College) and Nicholas Poniatowski (University of Maryland, College Park) both impressed the Apker Selection Committee with their undergraduate research.