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Second Year Grads

Penn State Astronomy & Astrophysics

Last updated: 21 October 2007

These are the Second Years. They started their journey through grad school in Fall 2006.


[ Steve Bongiorno | Sara Gettel | Jianfeng Wu]


Steve Bongiorno

Email: sdb210 @ astro.psu.edu

URL: http://www.personal.psu.edu/sdb210

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Research Interests:

Cosmic X-ray detector development.

Research Advisor:

Abe Falcone

Other Interests:

Working out, eating every 2.5 hours, designing and building everything, capturing whispers from space.

Birthday:

March 31

Favorite Color:

Blue or Green. Anything earthy.

Alma Mater:

Penn State

Reasons for Choosing Penn State:

The thriving instrument groups.

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Sara Gettel

Email: sgettel @ astro.psu.edu

URL: N/A

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Research Interests:

extrasolar planets

Research Advisor:

Larry Ramsey and Alex Wolszczan

Other Interests:

dancing, hiking, reading

Birthday:

July 24

Favorite Color:

blue

Alma Mater:

U. Michigan

Reasons for Choosing Penn State:

Seemed like the best research opportunities

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Jianfeng Wu

Email: jfwu @ astro.psu.edu

URL: N/A

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Research Interests:

High Energy Astrophysics and Multiwavelength Study

Research Advisor:

Prof. Niel Brandt

Other Interests:

Reading on history and geography, sports especially Formula 1 and soccer

Birthday:

June 1

Favorite Color:

blue, the color of the sky and the sea

Alma Mater:

Tsinghua U., China

Reasons for Choosing Penn State:

the world class group on high energy astrophysics

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