Double Honors Physics and Math major, Grace Miller, spent the last summer at the NSF’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in Nuclear and Particle Physics at TUNL/Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. As a part of the REU program Grace spent 6 weeks of the summer in Switzerland working at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), the home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and hugely respected nuclear research center in the world. During her time there she lived just over the France border in a small town called Saint Genis Pouilly and worked at CERN's main sight in Meyrin, Switzerland.

In her research Grace was measuring spin and orbital angular momenta entanglement in top quark decays produced by proton-proton collisions at the LHC. While at CERN, in addition to her research, Grace attended daily lecture series given by instructors from various institutions all over the world. The topics of lectures ranged from the mathematical foundations of particle physics to some of the cutting-edge CERN research, to accelerators and beam dynamics, antimatter in the laboratory, magnet superconductivity, neutrinos, flavor physics, cosmology, and quantum gravity.

In her spare time Grace hiked in the Alps, traveled to Paris, and even attended Taylor Swift’s concert in Zurich.