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Dr. Laura Wessels
Department of Physics & Physical Science
University of Nebraska at Kearney
2401 11th Ave
Kearney, NE 68849
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I received my PhD in Physics from North Carolina State University in 2009. My biophysics research focused on using dye molecules to study membrane fusion in viruses. I plan to continue studying viruses using microfluidic devices, aka lab on a chip technology. In 1999 I received my MS from Vanderbilt University in Mechanical Engineering. I researched propulsion devices for interstellar spacecraft. Obviously I have a wide interest range from the very large study of nature undertaken in astrophysics to the very small study of nature undertaken in biophysics. I was a visiting professor at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia for the past 3 years. Prior to that I was as a CIS professor at Strayer University from 1999 to 2008. Additionally in 2010 I interned at the North Carolina State University's Office of Technology Transfer where I did a lot of marketing of patented technologies. It was fascinating to see the 'business side' of science.