{"id":6983,"date":"2024-09-25T16:12:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T20:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=6983"},"modified":"2025-11-19T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:00:00","slug":"nathan-berube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2024\/09\/25\/nathan-berube\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan B\u00e9rub\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240731_REU-Lab-Headshots-Nathan-002-1-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240731_REU-Lab-Headshots-Nathan-002-1-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240731_REU-Lab-Headshots-Nathan-002-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240731_REU-Lab-Headshots-Nathan-002-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240731_REU-Lab-Headshots-Nathan-002-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240731_REU-Lab-Headshots-Nathan-002-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hailing from l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Laval in Quebec, where he studies Physical Engineering, Nathan was thrilled to further explore his love of research at the REU program this summer. Since he was a kid, when he enjoyed inspective flowers and insects, he has followed his passion for research to a STEM CEGEP after high school and eventually to the REU program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This summer, Nathan worked under PI Jermone Mertz in the Biomicroscopy Lab on \u201c3D Super-Resolution Widefield Microscope with Speckle Illumination.\u201d The project designed a microscope to improve high-quality imaging techniques for 3D objects without sacrificing detail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nathan plans to continue pursuing his love of research by applying to programs next summer, followed by a PhD after finishing his bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Hear more about Nathan&#8217;s research experience!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1062058498?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\" title=\"Nathan B\u00e9rube - REU Interview\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hailing from l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Laval in Quebec, where he studies Physical Engineering, Nathan was thrilled to further explore his love of research at the REU program this summer. Since he was a kid, when he enjoyed inspective flowers and insects, he has followed his passion for research to a STEM CEGEP after high school and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9269,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions\/9269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}