Maria Mitchell Association Astronomy Interns Summer Research Project Presentations

Please join us in person or online via Zoom for a very special presentation of this summer’s astronomy research.  The MMA’s National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF-REU) interns will present their research on everything from finding baby stars to understanding how galaxies grow over time and how dark matter influences galaxy cluster collisions. 

 

The MMA’s Maria Mitchell Observatory operates the NSF-REU program each summer and has done so for decades. The program, funded by a generous grant from the National Science Foundation, allows the MMA to bring six top undergraduate students to the MMA each summer who are selected out of a pool of approximately 380 applicants from around the United States. This summer’s NSF-REU interns and their research presentations are:  

 

Naija Bruckner (Rice University):  Probing Circumgalactic Medium Turbulence with Synthetic Absorption 

 

Sophia Davis (University of Michigan):  Shining the X-ray light on Planetary Nebulae in Globular Clusters 

 

Jillian Epstein (Cornell University): Searching for X-ray Counterparts of Protostellar Cores  

 

Fiona Lopez (Texas A&M University): Understanding the interplay between dust, gas, and stars in high redshift galaxies with ALMA and JWST 

 

Nicolas Mazziotti (University of Arizona):  Exploring Dark Matter and Galaxy Clusters  

 

Gada Tefera (Pomona College):  Investigating the impact of sub-DLAs on the Neutral Hydrogen Mass Density of the Universe 

 

This presentation is complimentary and is presented in person and via Zoom. Please pre-register for the Zoom link. Please find the Zoom link below: 

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yvhxJzWUStmpXmQe8_AJoA#/registration