May 6, 2004 -- Three YU students and physics majors who will graduate in May were accepted to doctoral programs, receiving free tuition and stipends. Louis Nemzer received a graduate teaching associateship at Ohio State University for the 2004-2005 academic year. A student in the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva College, Mr. Nemzer will teach physics labs and recitations while pursuing a doctoral degree. A native of Bexley, OH, Mr. Nemzer, 22, plans to research nanotechnology – specifically conducting polymers and organic-based magnets – and their possible applications to biology and biomedical engineering. “I’m very excited to start at Ohio State in June,” he said. “I was very impressed with the amount of resources being used there for research in the natural sciences, especially for fields that I’m interested in: physics and biomedical engineering.” Mr. Nemzer graduated as the valedictorian of the Irving Stone Beit Midrash Program. He also presented the results of his honors thesis, “Effect of Interface Disorder on Charge Transport through Semiconductor Quantum Wells,” in March at the American Physical Society meeting in Montreal. Ohio State’s graduate physics program offers a stipend and a tuition waiver. Amitai Bin-Nun of Woodmere, NY, will attend the University of Pennsylvania this fall to pursue a PhD in physics. In addition to research, Mr. Bin-Nun, 21, will also teach undergraduate courses and may focus his own research on soft condensed matter physics. “The opportunity to study at UPenn is tremendously exciting,” he said. “The faculty there has the resources to allow me to conduct research applicable to medicine and study fundamental questions of high-energy theory.” Mr. Bin-Nun plans to teach at the university level. Sioan Zohar of New Hempstead, NY, was accepted to Columbia University’s PhD program in applied physics. In addition to conducting research and taking classes, he will also be a teaching assistant. Mr. Zohar, 22, hopes to work in industry and teach on the college level. At Columbia, he will focus his research on solid state and optical physics.