Category: Student Spotlight

If you want to nominate a graduate student you know for the student spotlight, you can do so using the google form located here.

Student Spotlight: Scott Locke

Scott Locke is a 5th year graduate student studying particle physics, specifically, neutrinos. He was interested in both particle and medical physics while applying to graduate school, but ended up in neutrinos because it piqued his interest the most. Scott likes being able to feel like he is able to make a difference on a…Continue Reading Student Spotlight: Scott Locke

Student Spotlight: Arianna Long

Arianna Long is a 2nd year physics student studying extragalactic astrophysics. She is fascinated by extremely large and distant galaxies – we still cannot figure out how these galaxies gained mass so quickly in the early Universe. Arianna is currently working on determining whether galaxies in clusters formed all of their stars rapidly and simultaneously…Continue Reading Student Spotlight: Arianna Long

Student Spotlight: Katy Rodriguez Wimberly

Katy Rodriguez Wimberly is a 3rd year graduate student studying astrophysics. She wants to answer how and why smaller galaxies stop forming new stars particularly when those galaxies become satellites of larger galaxies. She credits her love of astrophysics to Star Trek: Voyager. Though she loved astronomy as a child, she had no idea that…Continue Reading Student Spotlight: Katy Rodriguez Wimberly