Summer Undergraduate Research Program Alumni

Summer 2024 - 18 students

Jenna Bitner

Advisors: Anusha Pai Adnoskar and Marshall Johnson
Project: Exploring the Atmospheres of Ultra-hot Jupiters Using TESS Phase Curves
Whereabouts:

Jackson Cook

Advisors: Anil Pradhan and Sultana Nahar
Project: Revealing Physical Parameters of  Q2343-D40 with Spectroscopic Line Ratios
Whereabouts:

Noah Downing

Advisors: Marc Pinsonneault
Project: Simulating Asteroseismic Detections for the Roman Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey
Whereabouts:

Hannah Eggenschwiler

Advisors: Jennifer Johnson
Project: Exploring Sonification of Oscillating Red Giant Stars
Whereabouts:

Amanda Fanale

Advisors: Lindsay Westraadt
Project: Effective Social Media Practices for the Department of Astronomy​
Whereabouts:

Roland Hebner

Advisors: Adam Wheeler
Project: Carbon Isotopes on the Red Giant Branch with Milky Way Mapper
Whereabouts:

Brayden JoHantgen

Advisors: Dom Rowan and Kris Stanek
Project: Searching for Big Dipper Stars in ASAS-SN
Whereabouts:

Elanora Julmy

Advisors: Kylee Carden, Rick Pogge, and Scott Gaudi
Project: Reviving the DEMONEXT Telescope
Whereabouts:

Victor Karkour

Advisors: Scott Gaudi
Project: Radial Velocity Testing for a Synthetic Galactic Population Model (SynthPop)
Whereabouts:

Stephen Lenker

Advisors: Paarmita Pandey and Laura Lopez
Project: Star Cluster DR-21: A Fermi-LAT Analysis
Whereabouts:

Ian Luckeydoo

Advisors: Amanda Ash and Marc Pinsonneault
Project: Early Rotational Evolution of Low Mass Stars
Whereabouts:

Raihan Malik

Advisors: Kaz Gary, Alison Duck, Anusha Pai Adnoskar, and Wayne Schlingman
Project: Developing the Exoplanet Planetarium Show
Whereabouts:

Suhas Reddy

Advisors: Barbara Ryden
Project: Evolution of Galaxy Colors as a Function of Redshift
Whereabouts:

Colton Ring

Advisors: Sebastian Lopez, Adam Leroy, and Laura Lopez
Project: Properties of Cold Gas in M82's Starburst-driven Wind
Whereabouts:

Phoenix-Avery Sarian

Advisors: Lindsay Westraadt, Wayne Schlingman, Anusha Pau Adnoskar
Project: Spectral Wonders, Bright Minds: Educational Materials on Brown Dwarfs and Advancing Astronomy Education Research
Whereabouts:

Sai Senthil Nathan

Advisors: Arjun Murlidhar and Scott Gaudi
Project: Developing an N-Body Exoplanetary Microlensing Simulation
Whereabouts:

Chen Yang

Advisors: Marshall Johnson
Project: Analyzing Spectroscopic Transit Data to Measure Precession Rates of Ultra Hot Jupiter TOI-1518b
Whereabouts:

Chuan Zhao

Advisors: Mark Reynolds
Project: In-depth Exploration of morphological classification refinement in DES
Whereabouts:

Summer 2023 - 15 students

Sam Bellman

Advisors: Paul Martini
Project: Constraining Cosmology with the Lyman Alpha Forest and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
Whereabouts:

Jowen Callahan

Advisors: Krzysztof Stanek
Project: Determining the Masses and Radii of Heart Beat Stars
Whereabouts:

Noah Downing

Advisors: Marc Pinsonneault
Project: Classifying Luminous Giant Stars
Whereabouts:

Erin Duell

Advisors: Richard Pogge & Johnathan Crass
Project: Throwing Empirical Abundance Methods into CHAOS & Testing Fiber Switchers for iLocater
Whereabouts:

Nicole Fedor

Advisors: Annika Peter
Project: Studying Dwarf Galaxies with Illustris TNG
Whereabouts:

Nathan Hughes

Advisors: David Martin
Project: Evolution of Exoplanet Orbit Around Stars with a Binary Companion
Whereabouts:

Maura Kelley

Advisors: Mark Reynolds
Project: Classifying Stars with X-Rays
Whereabouts:

Brendan Kirsh

Advisors: Kiersten Boley
Project: Impact of Stellar Abundance and Location on Galactic Planet Formation
Whereabouts:

Omar Kotrach

Advisors: Chris Kochanek
Project: 
Whereabouts:

Johnny Kushan

Advisors: Chris Hirata & Gabe Vasquez
Project: Primordial Black Holes as a Candidate for Dark Matter, Hawking Radiation Spectra of Primordial Black Holes
Whereabouts:

Calder Lenhart

Advisors: Marshall Johnson
Project: Analysis of an Ultra-Hot Jupiter's Atmosphere
Whereabouts:

Emily Macbeth

Advisors: Chris Hirata
Project: Characterization of Roman Detectors Using Speckle Patterns
Whereabouts:

Jayde Speigel

Advisors: Richard Pogge & Johnathan Crass
Project: Flux Calibration of the MODS Spectrographs at the LBT & Testing Fiber Switchers for iLocater
Whereabouts:

Jack Stethem

Advisors: Richard Hughes
Project: TITLE
Whereabouts:

Shelby Summers

Advisors: David Martin
Project: Observing Occultations Using TESS
Whereabouts:

Alyssa Whalen

Advisors: Don Terndrup
Project: Improving Cluster Membership in the Open Cluster IC 4665
Whereabouts:

Charles Yao

Advisors: Adam Wheeler
Project: Stellar Atmosphere: Korg & XSL, Series of Comparison
Whereabouts:

Lauren Yoder

Advisors: Wayne Schlingman & Jennifer Johnson
Project: Searching for Life in the Solar System
Whereabouts:

Summer 2022 - 19 students

Tayt Armitage

Advisors: David Martin and Romy Rodriguez-Martinez
Project: Locating Flares on Active M Dwarfs
Whereabouts:

Kaia Atzberger

Advisors: Andre Cuceu and Paul Martini
Project: Influence of HCD Absorbers on Lyman Alpha Forest Correlation
Whereabouts:

Dax Begeny

Advisors: Sultana Nahar and Anil Pradhan
Project: Modeling Exoplanetary Spectra with Geant4-ExoP
Whereabouts:

Harrison Blake

Advisors: Chris Hirata
Project: EMRI Resonance Hunting
Whereabouts:

Daniel Boyea

Advisors: James Johnson and David Weinberg
Project: Carbon Production in Galaxies
Whereabouts:

Maria Cook

Advisors: Barbara Ryden
Project: Separating Galaxy Populations in Color-Magnitude Space
Whereabouts:

Simon Filbert

Advisors: Paul Martini
Project: Redshift errors for BAL Quasars
Whereabouts:

Aditi Fulsundar

Advisors: Don Terndrup
Project: Understanding the Physical Conditions in BAL Quasars
Whereabouts:

Joshua Kingsbury

Advisors: Laura Lopez
Project: Uncapping the Cigar Galaxy: Examining the Northern Outflow and Cap of M82
Whereabouts:

Matt Lastovka

Advisors: Scott Gaudi
Project: Predicting the Detectability of Exomoons using the Roman Space Telescope
Whereabouts:

Andrew Miller

Advisors: Alexander Stephan, David Martin, and Scott Gaudi
Project: Building Models to Explore the Evolution of Binary Star Systems
Whereabouts:

Cassie Moats

Advisors: Rachel Patton and Marc Pinsonneault
Project: Exploring the Impact of Mergers on Internal Stellar Structure
Whereabouts:

Noah Myers

Advisors: Naim Karacayli and Paul Martini
Project: KODIAQ DR3 Lyman Alpha Forest Analysis
Whereabouts:

Sydney Petz

Advisors: Marshall Johnson
Project: Detectability of Species in KELT-20b
Whereabouts:

Anya Phillips

Advisors: Chris Kochanek, Tharindu Jayasinghe, Collin Christy, Lyra Cao
Project: Categorizing ASAS-SN Rotational Variables
Whereabouts:

Natalia Porraz Barrera

Advisors: Sebastian Lopez and Laura Lopez
Project: Temperature and Metallicity Gradients in the Galactic Winds of NGC4945
Whereabouts:

Karish Seebaluck

Advisors: Lauren Ennesser and Paul Martini
Project: Testing the BAL Finder
Whereabouts:

Autumn Stephens

Advisors: Samson Johnson and Scott Gaudi
Project: Extracting Spectra from Microlensing Events
Whereabouts:

Jordan Wagner

Advisors: Sumit Sarbadhicary and Adam Leroy
Project: Where do Massive Stars Explode in the ISM?
Whereabouts:

Trinity Webb

Advisors: Grace Olivier and Laura Lopez
Project: Stellar Feedback within HII Regions
Whereabouts:

Alyssa Whalen

Advisors: Lyra Cao and Marc Pinsonneault
Project: Binarity and Stellar Activity in the Alpha Persei Star Cluster
Whereabouts:

Anthony Will

Advisors: Emily Griffith, Jennifer Johnson, and Wayne Schlingman
Project: Observational HR Diagrams and Isochrones with GAIA
Whereabouts:

Summer 2021 - 21 students

Noah Bungart

Advisors: Tharindu Jayasinghe
Project: Modeling Detached Eclipsing Binaries with ASAS-SN and ABPOGEE DR17
Whereabouts:

Katherine Duray

Advisors: Annika Peter, Wayne Schlingman
Project: Dark Matter Planetarium Show
Whereabouts:

Madison Englerth

Advisors: Chris Orban, Wayne Schlingman
Project: Georges Lemaître and the discovery of the Expanding Universe
Whereabouts:

Simon Filbert

Advisors: Paul Martini
Project: BAL Quasars in DESI Data
Whereabouts:

Kevin Hoy

Advisors: Anil Pradhan, Sultana Nahar
Project: Modelling Phosphorus II Emission
Whereabouts:

Joshua Kingsbury

Advisors: Smita Mathur
Project: eRosita Bubbles: X-Ray Ghosts in Archival Spectra?
Whereabouts:

Parker Kuzma

Advisors: Patrick Vallely
Project: Determining Progenitor Star Radius Using Type II Supernovae Rise Times
Whereabouts:

Grant Lach

Advisors: Ji Wang
Project: K2-141 and its USP Planet
Whereabouts:

Kolya Larson

Advisors: Don Terndrup
Project: Broadband Optical/Infrared Variability in Quasar Spectral Energy Distributions
Whereabouts:

Matthew Lastovka

Advisors: Scott Gaudi
Project: Effects of Moons on Caustics and Critical Curves in Microlensing Events
Whereabouts:

Brynn Miller

Advisors: Jennifer Johnson, Wayne Schlingman
Project: Creation of Solar System Modules and Activities in the Planetarium
Whereabouts:

Kyle Neumann

Advisors: Chris Kochanek
Project: ASAS-SN 2018-2020 Supernova Catalog
Whereabouts:

Natalio Parker

Advisors: Sanskriti Das, Amy Sardone, Adam Leroy
Project: Neutral Hydrogen in the Circumgalactic Medium of Nearby Spiral Galaxies
Whereabouts:

Hannah Parsons

Advisors: David Martin
Project: Detrending Lightcurves to Search for Circumbinary Planets
Whereabouts:

Kayvon Sharifi

Advisors: Fiorenzo Vincenzo
Project: Li Abundances in the Milky Way
Whereabouts:

Yuanhao Shi

Advisors: Jennifer Johnson
Project: Label Transfer from APOGEE to LAMOST and BOSS
Whereabouts:

Rachel Slaybaugh

Advisors: Chris Hirata
Project: Predicted Constraints on Primordial Black Holes from the Roman Space Telescope
Whereabouts:

Avidaan Srivastava

Advisors: Ji Wang
Project: Identifying Fully Convective M-Dwarfs in TESS sectors 1 and 2
Whereabouts:

Logan Steele

Advisors: Samantha Benincasa, Adam Leroy
Project: HI Isolation and Scaling Relations in Galaxy Simulations
Whereabouts:

Malika Sunasara

Advisors: Ness Mayker, Adam Leroy, Laura Lopez
Project: Exploring the Relationship between NGC4321 Supernovae and H-alpha Emission
Whereabouts:

Aiden Zelakiewicz

Advisors: Samson Johnson
Project: Near-Infrared Extinction and Reddening Toward the Galactic Center
Whereabouts:

Summer 2020 - 18 students

Devin Bennett

Advisors: Marc Pinsonneault, Mathieu Vrard
Project: Classification of Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars
Whereabouts: 

Michaela Deming

Advisor: Anna Voelker
Project: Accessible Astronomy Outreach: SciAccess 2020 and Beyond
Whereabouts: 

Collin Christy

Advisors: Kris Stanek, Tharindu Jayasinghe Arachchilage
Project: The All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) Citizen Science Project
Whereabouts: 

Evan Fitzmaurice

Advisor: David Martin
Project: Searching for the Next Tatooine: Identifying Circumbinary Planets with TESS
Whereabouts: 

Mitchell Halley

Advisors: Smita Mathur, Sanskriti Das
Project: X-ray Astronomy and Spectral Analysis: Identifying Active Galactic Nuclei
Whereabouts: 

Hannah Hermann

Advisor: Fiorenzo Vincenzo
Project: Developing a Chemical Evolution Model for Neutron-capture Elements,
Whereabouts: 

Jared Kolecki

Advisors: Ji Wang, Jennifer Johnson
Project: Measuring Elemental Abundances in Metal-Poor Stars
Whereabouts: 

Jacob Krebs

Advisors: Jennifer Johnson, Marc Pinsonneault, Fiorenzo Vincenzo
Project: Alpha/Fe Trends in SDSS Data: the Effects of Star Formation History and Type 1a Supernovae
Whereabouts: 

Jessica Kulp

Advisors: Rick Pogge, Wayne Schlingman
Project: Recreating the Origins of the Elements Planetarium Show
Whereabouts: 

Lily Loyer

Advisors: Marc Pinsonneault, Mathieu Vrard
Project: Analyzing Unusual Stars: Discovery of Strange Oscillation Frequencies on the Kepler Field
Whereabouts: 

Melissa Mikalsen

Advisor: Wendy Panero
Project: Modeling Metal-Silicate Differentiation to Predict Super-Earth Core Composition
Whereabouts: 

Maria Pudoka

Advisor: Donald Terndrup
Project: Stellar Rotation and Youth in G- and K- Type Field Dwarfs
Whereabouts: Graduating Spring 2021

Michael Rothman

Advisors: Anil Pradhan, Sultana Nahar, Bilal Shafique
Project: Simulating Spectra of Exoplanetary Atmospheres: Calculating Transmission Energies and Opacities
Whereabouts: 

Luca Schmitt

Advisor: Donald Terndrup
Project: SimBAL: Understanding Quasar Outflows
Whereabouts: 

Robert Von Holle

Advisor: Barbara Ryden
Project: Active Galactic Nuclei and the Correlated Properties of Neighboring Galaxies
Whereabouts: 

Miqaela Weller

Advisor: Jennifer Johnson
Project: Using Radial Velocity Variations to Detect Compact Objects Orbiting Massive Stars
Whereabouts: 

Michael Winfield

Advisor: Yi-Kuan Chiang
Project: Analyzing WISE Survey Magnitude Measurements Using Clustering Redshift Approach
Whereabouts: 

Yuanyuan Yang

Advisor: Christopher Hirata
Project: Models of Polarized Lyman-alpha Emission from Reionization
Whereabouts: 

Summer 2019 - 11 Students

Jackie Appel

Advisor: Richard Pogge and Danielle Berg
Project: Probing the ADF and Chemical Abundances in the Far-Ultraviolet in M101
Whereabouts: Graduated Spring 2020

Abby Aronica

Advisor: Matthew Penny
Project: Building a Galactic Synthesis Model to Aid in the Detection of Planets Through Microlensing
Whereabouts:

Nick Clawson

Advisor: Rochard Pogge
Project: Correcting for the Distortion of Sloan and Dupont Telescopes Using Zhao-Burge Polynomials
Whereabouts:

Serena Cronin

Advisor: Dyas Utomo and Adam Leroy
Project: The Local Environments of Low-Redshift Supernovae
Whereabouts: Graduating Autumn 2020

Ian Dela Cruz

Advisor: Heidi Wu
Project: Weak Gravitational Lensing of Galaxy Clusters in LSST DESC DC2
Whereabouts:

Dhvanil Desai

Advisor: Barbara Ryden
Project: Galaxy Alignment with Surrounding Large-Scale Structure
Whereabouts: Graduated Spring 2020, ASAS-SN Analyst at OSU

Conor Hayes

Advisor: Johnny Greco
Project: An Environmental Analysis of Four Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy Candidates
Whereabouts: Graduated Spring 2020, Graduate Student at York University

Rani Hinnawi

Advisor: Anil Pradhan
Project: Recalculating Fe-XVIII Opacity Using Flexible Atomic Code (FAC)
Whereabouts: Graduated Spring 2020

Nikki Justice

Advisor: Don Terndrup
Project: Angular Momentum Loss in Eclipsing Binaries: a Modern Statistical Analysis
Whereabouts: Graduated Spring 2020

Victoria Niu

Advisor: Paul Martini
Project: Better Cosmological Measurements with BAL Quasars
Whereabouts: Graduated Spring 2020, Graduate Student at Pennsylvania State University

Jack Warfield

Advisor: Marc Pinsonneault and Jennifer Johnson
Project: Revealing the Ages of Red Giants in the K2 Fields
Whereabouts: Graduated Spring 2020, Graduate Student at University of Virginia

Summer 2018

Dominic Flournoy

Advisor: Barbara Ryden
Project: Early vs. Late Type Galaxy Shape Alignment
Whereabouts: Graduated Spring 2019

Zoey Samples

Advisor: Scott Gaudi and Radek Poleski
Project: Modeling Microlensing Events Precisely for Binary and Triple Lens Systems with Low Mass Planets and Moons
Whereabouts: Graduated Spring 2019

Ness Mayker

Advisors: Danielle Berg and Richard Pogge
Project: Using the Balmer Jump to Measure Temperature in HII Regions
Whereabouts: Graduated Spring 2019, Graduate Student at The Ohio State University

Krisann Stephany

Advisor: Richard Pogge
Project: Developing a Planetarium Program for Outreach to School Groups
Whereabouts: Graduated Spring 2019

Summer 2017

Connor Basinger

Advisor: Prof. Don Terndrup
Project: Stellar Rotation and Ages
Whereabouts: Graduated Spring 2018, Graduate Student at The Ohio State University

Erica Behrens

Advisor: Prof. Adam Leroy
Project: Demographics of Star-Forming Regions in Nearby Galaxies
Whereabouts: Graduated Spring 2020, Graduate Student at University of Virginia

Grace Calhoun

Advisor: Prof. Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg (Anthropology)
Project: Sexual Dimorphism in the Geometry of Modern Human Canines
Whereabouts: Graduate Student at University of Florida

Zhiyuan Guo

Advisor: Prof. Paul Martini
Project: BAL Quasar Identification
Whereabouts: 

Aishwarya Srivastava

Advisor: Prof. Annika Peter
Project: Estimation of Dark Matter Halo Mass
Whereabouts: 

Summer 2016

Malinda Baer

Grace Calhoun

Macy Huston

Summer 2015

Rachel Cannata

Derrick James

Michael Macuga

Summer 2014

Denise Hung

Jacob Luhn

Rebecca O'Sha

Paul Zivick

Summer 2013

Alec Alvarez

Erika Wagoner

Summer 2012

Brittney Curtis

Advisor: Barbara Ryden
Project: Warped Disk Galaxies in SDSS DR8
Whereabouts: Epic Systems

Zachary Hartman

Jacob Jencson

Adam Kavka

Summer 2011

Andrew Gallagher

Advisor: Barbara Ryden
Project: Searching for Dark Galaxies via their Distorted Companions in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Whereabouts: Graduate student at University of Maryland

Johnny Greco

Advisor: Paul Martini & Todd Thompson
Project: Probing the Mass Distribution and Stellar Populations of M82
Other: Goldwater Fellow, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Whereabouts: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at The Ohio State University

Daniel McGregor

Advisor: Andy Gould & Rick Pogge
Project: Testing Microlensing Assumptions in the Event MB11093
Whereabouts: Graduate student in Math at The Ohio State University

Elizabeth Otto

Advisor: Jennifer Johnson
Project: Chemical Abundances of CH Stars in Omega Centauri
After Graduation: Graduate student at UC Santa Cruz
Other: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Whereabouts: We Teach Science

Ethan Palay

Advisor: Anil Pradhan
Project: Nebular Temperature and Density Diagnostics with Far Infra-Red [O III] Lines
Paper: Palay, Nahar, Pradhan, & Eissner 2012, MNRAS, 423, 35
Whereabouts: Graduate student in Physics at the Colorado School of Mines

Summer 2010

Lawrence Capruder

Advisor: Scott Gaudi & Marc Pinsonneault
Project: Solar Mass Loss and the Faint Young Sun Paradox
Whereabouts: MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Li-Wei Hung

Advisor: Andy Gould & Rick Pogge
Project: Searching for Extrasolar Planets in the Microlensing Event MB10311
Whereabouts: Graduate student at UCLA
Other: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Anna Kwa

Advisor: Jennifer Johnson
Project: Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars
Whereabouts: Graduate student at UC Irvine

Mallory Molina

Advisor: Brad Peterson
Project: Inter-Percentile Velocity Widths of Spectral Lines for AGN Black Hole Masses
Other: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Whereabouts: Graduate student at Penn State University

Jessica Orwig

Advisor: Jennifer Johnson
Project: Metallicities of M Giants in the Galactic Halo
After Graduation: Graduate School in Science Writing, Texas A&M University         
Whereabouts: Science Reporter, Business Insider Magazine

Summer 2009

Dina Drozdoz

Advisor: Barbara Ryden
Project: Spin Statistics of Spiral Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Whereabouts: Graduate student at Clemson University

James Mertens

Advisor: Kris Sellgren
Project: Measuring Reddening towards the Galactic Center
Whereabouts: Graduate student in Physics at Case Western University

Cameron Nelson

Advisor: Andy Gould & Rick Pogge
Project: Placing Constraints on a Binary Gravitational Microlensing System
Paper: Skowron et al. 2011, ApJ, 738, 87
Whereabouts: Graduate student in Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona

Jacob Parks

Advisor: Don Terndrup & Marc Pinsonneault
Project: Distance to Open Clusters from Main Sequence Fitting
Whereabouts: Graduate student in Physics at The Ohio State University

Eric Suchyta

Advisor: Jim Beatty
Project: AURA Attenuation Length
After Graduation: PhD in Physics at The Ohio State University
Whereabouts: Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania

Summer 2008

Jesse Buxton

Advisor: Barbara Ryden
Project: The Alignment of Binary Spiral Galaxies
Paper: Buxton & Ryden 2012 ApJ, 756, 135
Whereabouts: Graduate student in Physics at The Ohio State University

Julie Djordjevic

Advisor: Donald Terndrup
Project: Stellar Rotation in Open Clusters
Whereabouts: Graduate student at University of Hertfordshire, UK

Edward Golowacz

Advisor: Smita Mathur
Project: XMM-Newton Observations of the NLS1 J1430-0011
Whereabouts: CPC Processor for Career Education Corp.

Julie Janczak

Advisor: Andy Gould & Rick Pogge
Project: Searching for Planets with Gravitational Lensing
Paper: Janczak et al. 2010, ApJ, 711, 731
Whereabouts: MS in Physics at The Ohio State University, 2012

Jacob Mayer

Advisor: Jim Beatty
Project: MATLAB Model of Electronics for AMBER
Whereabouts: Teacher, Reynoldsburg City Schools

Man-Hong Wong

Advisor: Paul Martini
Project: OSMOS: Ohio State MultiObject Spectrograph
Whereabouts: Graduate student in Physics at the University of Illinois
Other: Advanced Light Source Doctoral Fellowship, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Summer 2007

Timothy Arnold

Advisor: Paul Martini
Project: Morphology of AGN Hosts in Clusters
Paper: Arnold et al. 2009, ApJ, 707, 1691
Whereabouts: iOS Developer, Friends of the Web, Baltimore, MD
Other: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, MS University of Arizona

Megan Comins

Advisor: Brad Peterson
Project: Systematic Errors in Black Hole Mass Measurements using Reverberation Mapping
Whereabouts: Graduate student in Astronomy at Cornell

Garrett Elliott

Advisor: Scott Gaudi
Project: Detection of Kuiper Belt Objects via Stellar Occultation
Whereabouts: Graduate student at the University of Hawai'i

Nathaniel Ross

Advisor: Chris Kochanek
Project: Microlensing in SDSSJ1004+4112
Paper: Ross et al. 2009, ApJ, 702, 472
Whereabouts: Graduate school at UCLA

Cayman Unterborn

Advisor: Barbara Ryden
Project: Inclination-Based Extinction Effects on Spiral Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Paper: Unterborn & Ryden, 2008, ApJ, 687, 976
After Graduation: Teach for America
Whereabouts: Graduate student in the School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University

Christopher Williams

Advisor: Jim Beatty
Project: The RF Performance of the ANITA Experiment
After Graduation: PhD in Physics at the University of Chicago
Whereabouts: Postdoc at Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology