Academics
Mara DeRung, MSUM student, presents poster about astronomy education that the Annual Meeting of the AAVSO
Mara DeRung, a Sustainability major and Astronomy minor, presented a poster at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, held Nov 2-4 in Boston, MA. Her presentation “Exoplanet Coding Revisions and Exo-Planet Candidate data” described work done at MSUM over the last three years to make analysis of data taken in support of a NASA mission accessible for non-science majors. Students in an introductory observational astronomy course analyze data taken at MSUM’s observatory to help confirm tentative discoveries of new planets in other solar systems by a NASA satellite.