I am a rising senior at Coe College studying to receive my Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Chemistry. With many thanks to the NSF, I have had the opportunity to participate in glass research with the Coe College Physics department. Through this research, I was able to spend a week using equipment in the UK to conduct research on my samples. Although being able to say you sent your samples to another country is extremely humbling, the idea that we may send something I worked on into space is just surreal. I grew up my whole life staring up at the stars and to think my work could contribute to a greater understanding of those stars fills me with bewilderment.

Outside of research I am captain of the Swimming & Diving team, an active member of Coe Student Senate, and Vice President of Mortar Board, Crescent Chapter. I also serve on a few budgetary committees: one which oversees the budgets for clubs on Coe’s campus and the other determines the college’s budget as a whole. In my free time I enjoy lifting weights, hitchhiking, and biking. I have been told “Collin, your life is just like one big adventure,” and I cannot wait to tell stories of my adventures in D.C., and with NASA.