SAO Intern Alumni News

Hi former interns! If you're at the January AAS, please say hi sometime during the week.

Also, please send me updates to the list below, for yourself or for anyone else you know the current whereabouts of.

Best wishes, Jonathan

SAO Interns current status





  Student   School   Advisor(s)   Current status   Project





2008





  India Andersen

  Southern University

  Leonard Strachan

  Solar wind models and SOHO UVCS

  Dan D'Orazio

  Juniata College

  Greg Dobler and Beth Willman

  Invisible Galaxies with Gravitational Lensing

  Christene Lynch

  Gettysburg College

  Juan Luna and Scott Kenyon

  RS Oph spectroscopy

  Greg Mosby

  Yale University

  Lori Allen

  Young stellar clusters in Ori

  Kaylea Nelson

  Colby College

  Ewan O'Sullivan and Andreas Zezas

  Chandra/XMM study of ellipticals

  Arpita Roy

  Franklin and Marshall College

  Liz Humphreys

  High Mass Star Formation (Orion Source I)

  Greg Salvesen

  U of Michigan

  John Raymond and Dick Edgar

  Cosmic ray pressure in Cyg Loop

  David Stark

  U of Minnesota

  Paul Nulsen and Ralph Kraft

  Jets in Cen A

  Kristin Watson

  U of Arkansas

  Joe Hora

  IR Dark Clouds Spitzer Survey

  Caleb Wheeler

  U of Missouri

  Willie Torres

  Pleiades Binarity

  Angie Wolfgang

  Cornell

  Paul Green

  X-ray active objects in ChaMP






2007

  Eric Baxter

  Harvey Mudd

  Kevin Covey and Gus Muench

  Stellar Contraction and Ang. Momentum in NGC 2264

  Iara Cury

  Yale

  Roseanne di Stefano and Pavlos Protopapas

  Gravitational Lensing Search

  Furqan Fazal

  Amherst

  T K Sridharan, Qizhou Zhang

Grad student in applied physics, Stanford (start 2008)

  High Mass Protostellar Objects

  Sarah Harrison

  MIT

  Dan Evans and Julia Lee

  Energetic processes in AGN

  Colin Hill

  MIT

  Ken Rines

  Clusters of Galaxies

  Therese Jones

  Penn State

  Kelly Korreck

  Particle Acceleration in the Solar Corona

  Kyle Penner

  UT Austin

  Silas Laycock, Maureen van den Berg

Grad student, Arizona (2008?)

  ChaMPlane Identifications

  Megan Reiter

  Berkeley

  Massimo Marengo

Grad student, Arizona (2008?)

  AGB Stars with IRAC

  Blake Sherwin

  Cambridge

  Avi Loeb

  Gravitational Radiation and Quasar Feedback

  Johanna Teske

  American U

  Andreas Zezas

Grad student, Arizona (fall 2008)

  Galaxy mergers with Chandra and Spitzer

2006

  Michael Anderson

  Michigan

  Steve Murray, Almus Kenter

Grad Student, Caltech (2007)

  X-ray galaxies

  Sarah Ballard

  Berkeley

  Lori Allen

Grad Student, Harvard (2007)

  Star formation in Bright Rimmed Clouds

  Amy Colon

  Hunter College

  Suzanne Romaine

Grad Student, UNC Chapel Hill (2008)

  X-ray mirror technology

  Adrienne Hunacek

  MIT

  Saku Vrtilek

Law school, BC

  Doppler tomography of XRBs

  Lauren Hund

  Furman

  Joseph Hora

Grad school in Biostatistics, Harvard (2007)

  Spitzer deep survey

  Christopher Klein

  Caltech

  Matt Ashby, Andreas Zezas, Howard Smith

Grad Student, Berkeley (2008)

 Galaxies with Spitzer

  Robert Penna

  Rochester

  Paul Nulsen

Part 3 Maths, Cambridge (Fall 2007); Harvard 2008

  Centaurus A shock model

  Julia Sandell

  Columbia

  Vinay Kashyap

Grad student, U Penn (2007)

  Solar magnetic loops

  Sarah Scoles

  Agnes Scott College

  Roseanne di Stefano

Creative Writing grad school, Cornell (2007)

  Soft X-ray sources

  Michael Shaw

  MIT

  Josh Grindlay

Grad student (physics), Stanford, (2007)

  Light curves from plate archives

  Student   School   Advisor(s)   Current status   Project
2005

  Jennifer Blum

  Columbia

  Andrea Dupree

Grad Student, Michigan (fall 2006)

  Stellar rotation

  Laura Book

  UIUC

  Lee Hartman

Grad student, Caltech (start 2007)

  FU Ori burst modelling

  Kryzysztof Findeisen

  Cornell

  Paul Nulsen

Grad student, Caltech (start 2007)

  AGN heating of galaxies and groups

  Conrad Hutcheson

  U. Arizona

  John Huchra

Grad student, Stanford

  IR properties of galaxies in clusters

  Harrison Prentice-Mott

  U Penn.

  Suzanne Romaine/Eric Silver

Working in biotech, 2007

  X-ray detectors/mirrors

  Michael Rutkowski

  Hampden Sydney College

  Eric Schlegel

Grad student, Arizona State

  Metal-poor stars (? or E0102)

  Shannon Schmoll

  U. Washington

  Gabriella Malleno-Ornelas and Matt Holman

Grad student, Michigan (fall 2007)

  Asteroid search

  Megan Schwamb

  U. Penn

  Rosanne DiStefano

Grad school, Caltech (2006)

  Lensing light curves

  Paul Sell

  U. of Toledo

  Matt Ashby

Grad student, Wisconsin (2007)

  High redshift galaxies

  Sarah Sonnett

  College of Charleston

  Brian Patten, Massimo Marengo

Grad student, U of Hawaii (Fall 2006).

  Spitzer photometry of T dwarfs

  Student   School   Advisor(s)   Mentor(s)*   Current status   Project
2004

  Debarati Chattopadhyay

  Lehigh University

  Mark Weber

  Alana Sette

Working at SAO

  Solar corona mission

  Joseph Neilson

  Kenyon College

  Saku Vrtilek

  Bram Boroson

Grad Student, Harvard (from Sep 2006)

  SMC X-1

  Tyrel Johnson

  Idaho

  Suzanne Romaine

  Ricardo Bruni

Grad Student, Maryland (start 2005)

  X-ray microcalorimeter detectors

  Clay Hambrick

  Harvey Mudd

  Paul Nulsen

 

Grad Student, Princeton, (start 2005)

  Cooling Flow Clusters

  Megan Roscioli

  Haverford

  Pauline Barmby

  Matt Ashby

Grad student, Chicago (start 2005)

  Infrared galaxies

  Cecelia Hedrick

  Nebraska

  Jeno Sokoloski

 

2006 working at JPL; ?

  Symbiotic binaries

  David Myer

  UCSD

  Eric Schlegel

 

Grad student in geophysics, Scripps-UCSD

  X-rays from galaxies

  Linda Watson

  U Florida

  Margarita Karovska

  Dimitar Sasselov, Massimo Marengo

Grad student, Ohio State (start 2005)

  Stellar interferometer in space

  Krystal Tyler

  Purdue

  Mike Pahre

  Giovanni Fazio

Grad student, Arizona (start 2005)

  Nearby active galaxies with Spitzer

  Ryan Anderson

  Michigan

  Tom Megeath

  Lori Allen, Phil Myers

Grad student, Cornell

  Star clusters with Spitzer

  Monica Vargas-Medina

  Puerto Rico

  Christine Jones

 

Working at SAO

  Environment of AGN in Ellipticals

2003

  Cassandra Fallscheer

  Cal Poly/San Luis Obispo

  Alyssa Goodman

  Scott Schnee

Masters in Astro, Wesleyan; Grad school, Heidelberg

  Young stellar outflows

  Wesley Fraser

  McMaster Univ.

  Matt Holman

 

Grad student, U. of Victoria

  Outer planet satellites

  Joleen Miller

  Villanova

  Pete Nisenson

  Sylvain Korzennick

Grad student, Virginia (2004)

  Extrasolar planets

  Michael Mortonson

  MIT

  Eric Silver

 

Grad Student, Chicago

  X-ray detector development

  Chris Orban

  UIUC

  Brian Patten

  Meghan McGarry

Grad student, Ohio State (physics)

  X-ray stars in open clusters

  Nada Petrovic

  U. Chicago

  Rosanne DiStefano

  Albert Kong

Grad student, UCSB physics

  Microlensing

  Dan Perley

  Cornell

  Paul Green

  John Silverman

Grad student, Berkeley, 2004

  Search for galaxy clusters

  Caroline Ring

  U. North Ca./Greensboro

  Lori Allen et al.

 

Grad student, Duke (biomed engineering), 2007

  Infrared star forming regions

  Paul Taylor

  Boston College

  Andreas Zezas

  Jonathan McDowell, Pepi Fabbiano

Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, 2004

  Small Magellanic Cloud

  Deborah Turner-Bey

  Rockhurst Univ.

  Vinay Kashyap

  Nancy Evans and Amy Mossman

Student at U Miss. Kansas City?

  Magnetism in A-type Stars

  Katherine Whitaker

  U Mass Amherst

  Ralph Kraft

  Jenny Posson-Brown

Grad student, Boston U, 2005; Yale 2006

  X-rays from cluster Abell 119

2002

  Emily Alicea-Munoz

  U. Puerto Rico/Mayaguez

  Andrea Dupree

  Jason Aufdenberg

Grad student, Penn State/GSFC

  Stellar spectra

  Mia Bovill

  U. Maryland

  Tyler Bourke

  Peter Sollins

Grad student, Maryland

  Radio

  Richard Cool

  Wyoming

  Eric Silver

  Anil Dosaj

Grad student, U. of Arizona

  X-ray detectors

  Robert Friedman

  Rutgers

  Roseanne diStefano

  Ken Rines

Grad student, Chicago?

  -

  Alex Hill

  Oberlin

  John Huchra

  Nathalie Martimbeau

Grad student, U. Wisconsin-Madison

  Virgo Cluster

  Holly Maness

  Grinnell

  Saku Vrtilek

  Mike Raley

Grad student, Berkeley

  X-rays from PNe

  Joannah Metz

  UIUC

  Mark Kutchner

  Brant Robertson

Churchill scholar, Cambridge (2005); MIT grad student due 2005

  Stellar dust disks

  Anandi Salinas

  UT Austin

  Eric Schlegel

  Eli Beckerman

Grad student, UCSB physics (then UCSB Religious Studies, 2006)

  Chandra data

  Tristan Smith

  Chicago

  Suzanne Romaine

  Ricardo Bruni

Graduate student, Caltech

  X-ray detectors

  Daniel Wik

  U. Ohio (Athens)

  Paul Green

  John Silverman

Grad student, U. Virginia

  X-ray CHAMP survey

2001

  Annika Peter

  U Washington

  Andreas Zezas, Pepi Fabbiano

  Alceste Bonanos

PhD Princeton 2007; postdoc, Caltech

  X-rays from LLAGN

  Adria Updike

  Smith

  Amy Winebarger

  Kathy Reeves

Grad student, Montana (left);Grad student, Clemson

  Solar explosive events

  Shawn O'Brien

 Notre Dame

  Ed Bergin

  Shanil Virani

Grad student, Notre Dame

  Precursors to Massive Stars

  Elizabeth Leass

  UT Austin

  Tom Megeath

  Beth Biller

Grad student, UT Austin

  Active Star Forming Regions

  Shinae Park

  Berkeley

  Scott Kenyon

  John Grimes

Grad student, Harvard

  IR Protostars in Tau-Aur

  Adrienne Erickcek

  Princeton

  Matt Holman

  Anil Dosaj

Part III Maths at Cambridge, 2003; Grad Student, Caltech

  KBOs

  Samuel Vazquez Melendez

  U. Puerto Rico - Humacao

  Ralph Kraft

  Tabetha Hole

Grad student, UC Santa Barbara

  X-rays from Cen A

  Stephanie Campbell

  Purdue

  Nancy Brickhouse

  Ken Rines

  Unknown

  Chandra and Stellar Coronae

  Nick Stroud

  Wisconsin

  Rob Cameron, TLA/MK/DS

  Dave Morris

  Astrophysics MA, Stony Brook; in PhD Sci Ed. program at TC/Columbia, 2005

  Photometry with CXO-ACA

  Glen Nixon

  Purdue

  Jim Phillips

  Warren Brown

  Grad student, Princeton

  Equivalence Principle

2000
  Student   School   Advisor(s)   Current

  Deborah L. Freedman (Woods)

  Princeton University

  Jan Vrtilek

  Harvard grad student

  Mark Kramer

  Oberlin College

  Jim Moran and Q. Zhang

  Sci/tech grad student, Berkeley (fall 2001)

  Julia M. Kregenow

  Wittenberg University

  Ralph Kraft

  PhD Berkeley 2007; now at Cornell

  Emily M. Laubacher

  University of Dayton

  Eric Silver

  Physics grad student, Michigan (Fall 2001)

  Nicholas Pearson

  Bowling Green State University

  Steve Saar

  Aerospace grad student, Purdue (Fall 2001)

  Jennifer Posson-Brown

  Smith College

  David Latham

  Working at SAO

  Brant Robertson

  University of Washington

  Larry David

  Harvard PhD 2006; postdoc at Chicago

  Shanna Shaked

  University of Arizona

  Jonathan McDowell

  Grad student in env. phys, U. Mich?

  Daniel Joseph Sherman

  University of Pennsylvania

  David Bersier

  Physics grad student, Harvard

  Zoe Learner

  University of Oklahoma

  Eric Schlegel

  Grad Student, Cornell (fall 2002)

  Fernando Angel Torres

  University of California at Davis

  Hank Donnelly

  Current status unknown

1999

Alceste Bonanos

Wellesley College

Peter Garnavich

 PhD Harvard 2005; postdoc at Carnegie-DC

Carolyn Ernst

Brown University

Matt Holman

  Geology grad student, Brown

Francisco Galvan

Colby University

Mike Garcia

  Working at Bank of NY

Erik Hoversten

Iowa State

Nuria Calvet

  Grad Student, JHU

Vit Hradecky

California Institute of Technology

Christine Jones

  Grad student, Harvard

Naibi Marinas

University of Florida

Jim Phillips

  Grad student, Gainesville

John Moustakas

University of California at Berkeley

Eric Schlegel

PhD, Arizona; staff sci at NYU

Margaret Pan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

David Latham

  PhD, Caltech; Postdoc, IAS Princeton

David Rothstein

Haverford College

Paul Ho

  Grad student, Cornell

David Smith

University of Texas

Kenneth Wood

  Grad student, Harvard

Heidi Tebbe

University of Missouri

Brian Patten

  was grad student, Indiana; now studying comms.

Kathryn Whitman

Cornell University

Brian McNamara

Research assistant, Yale

1998

Marianne Vieira

Univ. of Rochester

Jim Babb

MS. Astronomy UVa, working at Lockheed

Catherine Slesnick

NYU

Bob Donahue, Sallie Baliunas (Co-advisors)

PhD Caltech 2007; postdoc at DTM

Jacqueline Chen

Yale University

John Huchra

PhD Chicago 2006; Postdoc, U Bonn

Megan Novicki

Univ. of Michigan

Christine Jones-Forman

PhD Hawaii 2005; working at NorthropGrumman

Robert Cohen

Univ. of Idaho

Steve Murray

Working at Raytheon?

Micol Huw Christopher

Harvard Univ.

Phil Myers

Grad student, CalTech; faculty at Mt Sinai Coll.

Colleen Schwartz

Colby College

Suzanne Romaine

PhD UCSB 2005; working in IT

Gregory Herczeg

Univ. of Notre Dame

Steven Saar

PhD, U. Colorado 2005; Postdoc at Caltech

Michael Baird

Grove City College

Eric M. Schlegel, Peter Garnavich

  was grad student, Indiana; now pursuing music studies

Beth Lindsey

Bryn Mawr

Dave Wilner

1997
James Chisholm Northwestern University Physics PhD Chicago; postdoc Fla. 2005
Rebecca Danos Wellesley College Physics grad student, UCLA; grad student, McGill
Michael Dorris Vanderbilt University Grad student, Stanford
Lynne Raschke Haverford College PhD Santa Cruz 2007; Postdoc at Santa Cruz
Brian Rebel Grinnell College PhD Indiana 2004; postdoc at Fermilab
Eric Rosolowsky Swathmore College Berkeley PhD; Postdoc at CfA, 2005
Alicia Soderberg Bates College PhD CalTech 2006; postdoc, Princeton
Jesse Southwick Princeton University Physics teacher
Jason Wright Boston University PhD Berkeley 2007; Postdoc, Cornell
1996
Avanti Athreya Iowa State University Grad student in math, U Maryland
Alison Coil Princeton University PhD Berkeley; Hubble postdoc at Arizona, 2005
Nate Emley University of Massachusetts, Amherst Physics grad student, Cornell?
Andrew Frey Wake Forest University Postdoc (physics), Caltech; Postdoc at McGill (2007)
Becca McMullen Whitman College Grad student, Montana; left astronomy 2003, working in non-profit
Julia Plummer Washington State University PhD in astronomy education, Michigan, 2006; faculty, Arcadia U.
Yelena Prok University of Virginia Physics grad student, Virginia
Ken Rines Rice University PhD Harvard 2003; Postdoc, Yale
Richard Scalzo University of Virginia PhD Chicago 2003?; Postdoc, LBNL
Alice Shapley Harvard University PhD Caltech 2003; Postdoc, Berkeley; faculty, Princeton
Aaron Sokasian Cornell University PhD Harvard 2003; in business
1995
Dave Bacon Cal Tech PhD Berkeley 2001; Physics postdoc, Caltech
Kenneth Banas University of Michigan Was grad student, CalTech; in 2002 with Arthur Anderson Co. in Chicago.
Lara Cross Trinity University MA U Texas Austin 1996; teaching school in Houston
Ben Lane Cal Tech PhD CalTech 2003?; Postdoc, MIT
Wendy Lane Rice University PhD Groningen 2000; now staff position at NRL
Jennifer Lotz Bryn Mawr PhD JHU 2002; Postdoc, Santa Cruz, then NOAO (2005)
Rob Simcoe Princeton University PhD CalTech 2002?; Postdoc, MIT
Stephen Stanec Case Western Reserve Physics grad student, Carnegie-Mellon ca. 1999; current info unknown
Rachel Theran University of Michigan Working in finance; at MIT/Sloan?
Beth Wicklund Tufts University MS in physics, Columbia; switched to med school at UMn
Cherie Willoughby University of Massachusetts Working in computers
1994
John Everett Carlton College PhD Chicago; postdoc, UW-Madison (2007)
Lisa Falkson Stanford University Working on speech recognition software
Natasha Hazell Fordham University Working in science education?
Eran Jones Southwest Missouri State
Nicole Lloyd Cornell University PhD Stanford 2001; Postdoc, CITA, Toronto (2001); LANL (2004)
Travis Metcalfe University of Arizona PhD Austin 2000; CfA postdoc, 2002; HAO/Boulder, 2004
Kendra Michaud University of Maine Worked at SAO until 2004; now farming in Maine
Nicholas Putnam Brown University Physics grad student, Berkeley (in 2000);
Ali Thomas Morehouse College
Heather Thompson University of Arizona Working as applications analyst
Steven Vance Andrews University Was physics grad student, Chicago?
Jenny White Howard Agnes Scott College Was working at Boeing Space/Defense, Atlanta (1998?)
Amy Winebarger King College, Tennessee PhD UAH 2000; Postdoc, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 2000-2001; Scientist, NRL, 2002; Faculty, Alabama A&M, 2005.