Meet the REUs


Carisa Miller

Home Institution: University of Albany (SUNY)
Research Project: Search for Dark Matter
UW Mentor(s): Leslie Rosenberg


Q: What are your physics/science interests?
Astrophysics and/or Astronomy

Q: What are your other interests?
Reading books and writing books

Q: What would you like to do after college?
Go to graduate school

Q: Tell us one strange but interesting fact about yourself.
I taught myself how to have lucid dreams.

Q: What first sparked your interest in Physics?
My high school physics teacher; I first took regents physics expecting it to be just another class, but she made it so interesting and fun that I took a class with her again in AP physics the following year.

Q: If you could have any pet what would it be?
A fox

Q: If you had a free month and unlimited funds, how would you spend your time?
I would learn new skills and hobbies that I never had the time or money to invest in, i.e. writing classes, dance lessons, learning new languages, lessons in instruments I always wanted to learn, anything I've ever told myself I'll learn one day.

Q: If you could get a grant to study anything what would it be?
Time travel, because I could never get a grant for that if it wasn't hypothetical.