After a month of cramming for finals and living off raw ramen noodles, there's nothing more appealing to a college student at the end of May than a long summer doing nothing, punctuated, if you're feeling really ambitious, by an occasional camping trip or jaunt to the beach.Unless you're Laurie Stephey or Brad Dinardo . In that case you might feel more up to nine weeks of performing cutting-edge scientific research. Laurie and Brad are two of this summer's Society of Physics Students interns, a group of motivated, physics-lovin' college students who spend nine weeks every summer working on projects ranging from from locating ice under the Martian soil to developing fun hands-on science curriculum . The interns worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , the University of Maryland's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center , the American Institute of Physics , and the American Physical Society . Laurie and Brad worked at the National Institutes of
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