My graduate research was done in the lab of Professor F. Barry Dunning at Rice University. I worked under the tutelage of the senior student on the experiment, James Lancaster, until 2002. When he graduated, I took over the experiment. My research involved studying the interaction between a singly-charged He+ (helium) ion and a metal surface. In this interaction, the He+ ion is neutralized by a metal electron and becomes a ground-state He0 atom. During the interaction, it is possible for electrons to be ejected from the metal surface. It is these ejected electrons that are collected and studied in our experiment.