Goldwater Scholarship nominees named

Congratulations to 2023-24 Goldwater Scholarship nominees from MSUM: Judah Nava (Computer Science) and Samantha Peterson (Anthropology). The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Program is a nationally recognized and prestigious program designed to provide support to highly qualified students who are planning on pursuing careers in science, math and engineering. The MSUM student nominees were selected based on strong academic performance, involvement […]

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 […]

MSUM student Emily Watson talked about measurement of the Blazhko effect at the Annual Meeting of the AAVSO

Emily Watson, a student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, gave a talk at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, held Nov 2-4 in Boston, MA. Her presentation “Analysis of the Blazhko Effect in the Star EY UMa,” discussed preliminary measurements of the period of long-term changes in the amplitude of pulsation of […]

Abby Moen, MSUM student, presents new measurements of period change in a variable star at the Annual Meeting of the AAVSO

Abby Moen, a student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, gave a talk at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, held Nov 2-4 in Boston, MA. Her presentation “Period change updates for δ Scuti variable DY Her,” discussed changes in the pulsation period of the variable star DY Her. She combined measurements taken […]