{"id":1284,"date":"2025-05-16T09:40:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T13:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2025-05-16T09:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T13:57:54","slug":"ai-innovation-and-faculty-mentorship-help-power-this-montclair-goldwater-scholars-scientific-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/2025\/05\/16\/ai-innovation-and-faculty-mentorship-help-power-this-montclair-goldwater-scholars-scientific-ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"AI, Innovation and Faculty Mentorship Help Power this Montclair Goldwater Scholar\u2019s Scientific Ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph David Quinn-Vitabile came to ÌÇÐÄvlog expecting to study computer science.\u00a0Now a junior, he\u2019s expanded his academic ambitions to include astrophysics, where he\u2019s helping push the boundaries of how we understand the universe \u2013 work that recently earned him a prestigious\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/goldwaterscholarship.gov\/\">2025 Goldwater Scholarship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Initially drawn to Montclair for its affordability and proximity to his home in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Quinn-Vitabile enrolled as a\u00a0<a href=\"\/academics\/computer-science\/\">Computer Science<\/a>\u00a0major. Like many Computer Science majors, he set about finding a software engineering internship, thinking that he might work at a tech company after graduation. Though he ended up getting that internship at Johnson &amp; Johnson last spring, he also happened to choose Physics for his elective science course that semester.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I really had a great time in physics. I thought that it was much more interesting than anything I had done yet in computer science. I wanted to continue studying physics, and I saw there was a lot of opportunity to use skills from computation and software to work in physics, whether research or other applications.\u201d<\/p>\n<footer><cite>Joseph David Quinn-Vitabile<\/cite><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Quinn-Vitabile decided to add the minor in\u00a0<a href=\"\/academics\/physics\/\">Physics<\/a>\u00a0as it would only be a few extra classes. He could continue studying it, meet more people, and get involved in research. And that\u2019s what he did that following summer.\u00a0\u201cIt all happened pretty quickly after that,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"\/newscenter\/2025\/05\/15\/ai-innovation-and-faculty-mentorship-help-power-this-montclair-goldwater-scholars-scientific-ambitions\/\">Read the Full Article on University News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How one ÌÇÐÄvlog student is leveraging artificial intelligence to unlock the mysteries of the universe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":1285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-physics","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}