The 2008 summer student class has reported to their assigned NRAO sites. This year’s class consists of 24 students: 16 undergraduate students supported by the National Science Foundation "Research Experience for Undergraduates" (REU) program; 7 graduating seniors or graduate students supported by the NRAO Graduate or Undergraduate Summer Student program; and 1 high-school senior. Eight students are assigned to Socorro, twelve to Charlottesville, and four to Green Bank. These 24 students were chosen from 109 applications.
During their 10-12 week summer internships, the students will work with an NRAO mentor on a project in the mentor’s area of expertise. In addition to their research projects, the students will attend a lecture series and participate in field trips to other observatories. Students assigned to Socorro will collaborate on a VLA or VLBA observational project, while students assigned to Green Bank or Charlottesville will conduct observing projects with the GBT.
The accompanying table lists the names and schools of the 2008 NRAO summer students, together with their NRAO mentor, site, and project title.Student | School | Project | Mentors | Site | Program |
Daniel Lacasse | James Madison University | Web Image Gallery Refactoring | Pat Murphy | CV | NSF REU |
Brian Sacash | Ohio Northern University | Data Preservation and Access for the NRAO 140ft and 12m Telescopes | Ron DuPlain | CV | NSF REU |
Bryan Murphy | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Applying Semantic Web Technologies and Ontologies to the NRAO Data Vault | Nicole Radziwill | CV | NSF REU |
Delia Mocanu | New Mexico Tech | Design Tool for Display of and Interaction with Large Spectral-Line GBT Data Sets | Bob Garwood | CV | NRAO uGRP |
Jessica Coakley | Bridgewater College | The Star Formation Environment of Sharpless 106 | Jeff Mangum | CV | NSF REU |
Matthew Schenker | Dartmouth College | Modeling Line Emission from Rotating Accretion Disks in AGNs | Jim Braatz | CV | NSF REU |
Claudia Cyganowski | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Probing the Nature of Extended Green Objects: A New Sample of Massive Protostellar Candidates | Crystal Brogan | CV | NRAO GRP |
Charli Sakari | Whitman College | Investigating the jets of Cygnus X-3 | James Miller-Jones | CV | NSF REU |
Anthony Woody | West Virginia University Institute of Technology | A low EMI m&c interface for the K band Focal Plan Array Receiver | John Ford | GB | NSF REU |
Marc Eimers | University of Colorado at Boulder | 140 Foot pulsar observation commissioning | Maura McLaughlin and Dunc Lorimer | GB | NSF REU |
Stephanie Moats | New Mexico Tech | GBT searches for new classes of interstellar molecules | Glen Langston | GB | NSF REU |
Colin Slater | Case Western Reserve University | Power Spectra of HI in the Outer Galaxy | Toney Minter | GB | NSF REU |
Joshua Marvil | UCSB | Understanding the nature of the microJy radio source population | Frazer Owen | Soc | NRAO GRP |
Alexander Savello | Emory University | Kinematic study of Bok globule CB4 | Robert Dickman | Soc | NSF REU |
Stephanie Capen | Eastern Nazarene College | Infrared colors of evolved stars as a tracer of maser emission | Lorant Sjouwerman & Mark Claussen | Soc | NSF REU |
Crystal Anderson | Western Washingtion University | X-ray emission from embedded young massive stars | Debra Shepherd | Soc | NRAO GRP |
Kiruthika Devaraj | PSG College of Technology | Radio Observations and Radiative Transfer Modeling of Planetary Atmospheres | Brigette Hesman & Bryan Butler | Soc | NRAO GRP |
Robert Edmonds | The University of New Mexico | The nature of the high-redshift tail of the submm galaxy population | Jeff Wagg & Chris Carilli | Soc | NRAO uGRP |
Benjamin Breslauer | Oberlin College | Astronomy in the Time Domain | Dale Frail | Soc | NSF REU |
Anthony Hamzeh | James Madison University | Probing the Physical and Chemical Properties of Astronomical Environments using Spectral Line Survey | Tony Remijan | CV | NSF REU |
Evan Schneider | Bryn Mawr College | Searching for the Pulsar in SN1986J | Scott Ransom | CV | NSF REU |
Frederick Davies | New Mexico Tech | Relative Motions of two Massive Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster | Craig Walker and Joan Wrobel | Soc | NSF REU |
Timothy Pennucci | Columbia University, Columbia College | Dynamic Power Spectra: Searching for Compact Binary Pulsars | Scott Ransom | CV | NRAO uGRP |
Allison Hammond | Western Albemarle High School | Parent and Daughter Species Evolution in Comet Hale-Bopp | Jeff Mangum | CV | Other |