Recent Penn State Ph.D's


Name  Year Advisor
Thesis Title 
Employment
 
Xinyu Dai
2004
Garmire
"An X-ray Study of Gravitational Lenses"
Postdoc, Ohio State University
Jie Ding
2004
Charlton

 
Michael Sipior 2003 Eracleous "The Rise and Fall of X-Ray Binaries"  Postdoc, the 'Anton Pannekoek' Astronomical Institute at the University 
of Amsterdam
Sarah Gallagher 2002 Brandt The View through the Wind: X-ray Observations of Broad Absorption Line Quasi-Stellar Objects SIRTF Fellow, UCLA
Ann Hornschemeier 2002 Brandt Chandra X-ray Constraints on Normal and Starburst  Galaxies at Cosmologically Interesting Distances Chandra Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
Michael Weinstein 2002 Schneider Photometric Redshifts of Quasars
(A Sloan Digital Sky Survey Project)
Lecturer in Physics & Astronomy,
Connecticut College
Rajib Ganguly 2002 Charlton , Eracleous Origins and Properties of QSO-Intrinsic Narrow Absorption Lines and their Host QSOs Postdoc, The Space Telescope Science Institute 
David Andersen 2001 Bershady The Photometric and Kinematic Structure and Asymmetry of Disk Galaxies Postdoc, Max Plank Institute for Astronomy (MPIA)
Anna Jangren  2000  Bershady  The Evolution of Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies  Postdoc, Wesleyan University 
John Feldmeier  2000  Ciardullo  A Survey of Intracluster Planetary Nebulae in the Virgo Cluster  Postdoc, Case Western Reserve University 
Jason Harlow  2000  Schneider  The Faint End of the Stellar Luminosity Function  Assistant Professor, University of the Pacific 
Alin Panaitescu  1999  Meszaros  Gamma-ray Bursts and Afterglows from Relativistic Fireballs  Lyman Spitzer Fellow, Princeton University 
Catherine Grant  1999  Burrows  The Three-Dimensional Structure of the Hot Interstellar Medium  Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Laura Cawley  1999  Burrows  Soft X-ray Spectral Analysis of the North Polar Spur  Instrument Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute 
Suzanne Linder  1999  Charlton  Comparing Galaxies and Lyman Alpha Absorbers at Low Redshift  Postdoc, Cardiff University
Kaori Nishikida  1999  Burrows  Multi-Wavelength Observations of the Loop I Superbubble  Research Associate, University of Washington 
Lee Carkner  1998  Feigelson  Pre-Main Sequence Stellar Magnetic Activity: Evolution and Effects  Postdoc, University of Colorado 
Sally Hunsberger  1998  Charlton  Dwarf Galaxies and Their Formation: A Study in the Compact Group Environment  Lowell Observatory Postdoctoral Fellow
Jeff Mendenhall  1998  Burrows  CCD Sounding Rocket Observations of the X-ray Background  Technical Staff, MIT/Lincoln Lab
Darren Williams  1998  Wade /Kasting  The Stability of Habitable Planetary Environments  Assistant Professor, Penn State-Behrend 
Hara Papathanassiou  1998  Meszaros  Spectral Properties of Relativistic Shocks in Gamma-Ray Bursts  Research Fellow, International Center for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy
Russet McMillan  1997  Ciardullo  Constraining the Ages of Supernova Progenitors  Staff Scientist, FermiLab/Sloan Survey 
Brian Cadwell  1997  Wolszczan  Pulsar Survey and Timing with the Penn State Pulsar Machines  Postdoc, Naval Research Lab 
Jason Best  1997  Charlton  The Use of the Pointwise Dimension in an Analysis of Galaxy Clustering  Assistant Professor, Shepherd College 
Sally Laurent-Muehleisen  1997  Feigelson  A New Sample of BL Lacertae Objects and Implications for Unified Schemes Postdoc, UC Irvine/IGPP Livermore 
Doug O'Neal  1997  Neff  Spectroscopic Measurements of Starspot Parameters on Active Stars  Assistant Professor, West Liberty State College
Craig Robinson  1996  Cordova  Constraining Emission Regions and Magnetic Field Structures in Cataclysmic Variables through X-ray, UV and Optical Observations  NRC Fellow, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Windsor Morgan  1995  Weedman/ Ciardullo  Spectra and Luminosities of X-ray-Selected Active Galactic Nuclei  Associate Professor, Dickinson College 
Zhiyu Guo  1995  Burrows  A Multiwavelength Study of the Orion-Eridanus Superbubble  Scientist, Lucent Technologies 
Ralph Kraft  1995 Nousek  Advances in Soft X-ray Spectroscopy Using Charge-Coupled Devices  Staff Scientist, CHANDRA Center, Harvard/Smithsonian


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