Riverbank resident and new Modesto Junior College grad Abdul Ahad is heading to Switzerland this summer to conduct physics research for two months. After his time in Geneva, he’ll start classes at UC Berkeley toward a bachelor’s in electrical and computer engineering.
“I wanted to delve deeper into the fabric of this universe and what everything is made of,” Ahad said. “What is gravity, what is time, what’s really going on at the most fundamental, the smallest level? Luckily enough, I’m able to tackle the question of what’s really happening at the smallest level.”
Ahad heard in January 2025 that he was accepted for an internship with the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, or CERN – a European organization that includes Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy and 21 others conducting research on particle physics…