{"id":1570,"date":"2013-02-28T10:11:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T18:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2013-12-20T10:24:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T18:24:42","slug":"undergraduate-quarter-winter-2013-jason-nikkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2013\/02\/28\/undergraduate-quarter-winter-2013-jason-nikkel\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate of the Quarter – Winter 2013 – Jason Nikkel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jason was born in Corvallis, but moved to Philomath at age 5. \u00a0His science high school teacher and OSU alumni (Molly O\u2019Malley) got him excited about science \u2013 he took\u00a0anatomy & physiology, chemistry and biology in high school from her. \u00a0He came to OSU\u00a0because of the positive experience his brother had at OSU and its close proximity to home, which reduced the cost of going to\u00a0college. \u00a0While he started as a chemistry major with a pre-med option (as he loved anatomy and physiology in high school),\u00a0his interests have transitioned to materials science and solid state chemistry during his time at OSU. \u00a0He first worked with Dave\u00a0Cann in the Materials Science program on high temperature piezoelectrics. In 2011, he presented a poster at the International\u00a0Symposium for Applications of Ferroelectrics on Vancouver Island, Canada. \u00a0 In 2012, he participated in the NSF REU internship\u00a0spearheaded by Chemistry Professor Doug Keszler and subsequently has transitioned into Keszler\u2019s lab to work on oxide growth of amorphous metal films.\u00a0\u00a0He has a hard time just picking one favorite course at OSU, but Experimental Chem 1 would be \u201cup there\u201d due to the course\u00a0environment and the friends he made through the process. Glenn Evans and Mike Lerner would be his favorite instructors during\u00a0his time at OSU. \u00a0In addition to chemistry, Jason has been an active participant in the OSU Men\u2019s Choir. \u00a0He plans to go to\u00a0graduate school at NC State after graduation to obtain a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering \u2013 likely focused on long range\u00a0and short range ordering of materials. \u00a0We are proud of talented students like Jason that continue to raise the profile of our\u00a0Department, College and OSU!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jason was born in Corvallis, but moved to Philomath at age 5. \u00a0His science high school teacher and OSU alumni (Molly O\u2019Malley) got him excited about science \u2013 he took\u00a0anatomy & physiology, chemistry and biology in high school from her. \u00a0He came to OSU\u00a0because of the positive experience his brother had at OSU and its… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1235743],"tags":[187040,187034],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-undergraduate-of-the-quarter","tag-doug-keszler","tag-undergraduate-of-the-quarter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}