This year, the Department of Physics and the Department of Astronomy sent a combined 30 undergrad students to the 2025 APS Conference for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics.

This year's conference took place at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, from January 24th- 26th, 2025.

Our OSU undergrad attendees were:

• Lily Bertemes
• Heidi Gui
• Natalia Hisle
• Katherine Indyk
• Kieran Kelly
• Sera Mathew
• Mckenna Paden
• Brickelle Rahmaan Bixler
• Sierra Reis
• Dasha Crocker
• Kara DiLudovico
• Erin Duell
• Eleonora Julmy
• Bailey Kearney
• Maura Kelley
• Olivia Manger
• Jorie McDermott
• Emily Macbeth
• Sophie Olsen
• Emilie Pierce
• Josephine (Josie) Rose
• Samantha Schotters
• Jayde Spiegel
• Shelby Summers
• Ashley Tarrant
• Lily Yu
• Aech (Abigail)  Thompson
• Jaansi Chaurasia
• Amanda Fanale
• Phoenix-Avery Sarian

Students Josie Rose and Dasha Crocker both presented and received awards at this year's conference. Congratulations!

Josie presented "...about my measurement of the shape of gam cas, a rapidly rotating star with an extreme elongated shape. This is the first time anyone has been able to measure the shape and orientation of a star, beyond just its average size, using stellar intensity interferometry and it is an exciting step forward in a small but growing field. I hope to have these results published very soon!" (Josie Rose)

Thank you to all of our undergrads who made the trip, and we look forward to sending more students in the future!

Please check out the CU*iP Conference page for more photos.