These are the Third Years. They started their journey through grad school in Fall 2005.
[ Bin Luo | Amanda Morrow | Stephen Redman | Michael Stroh | Jason Young ]
Bin LuoEmail: lbin @ astro.psu.eduURL: N/A |
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Research Interests:
AGNs and their interaction with surrounding galaxies.
Research Advisor:
Other Interests:
Movies, science fiction and fantasy novels
Birthday:
April 25
Favorite Color:
Black and red
Alma Mater:
Tsinghua U., P. R. China
Reasons for Choosing Penn State:
Strong astronomy programs, especially in high energy astrophysics.
Amanda MorrowEmail: morrow @ astro.psu.eduURL: http://www.astro.psu.edu/~morrow/ |
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Research Interests:
Gravity waves, galaxy formation and evolution, cosmology, large scale structure, science politics and trends
Research Advisor:
Other Interests:
Playing with a toy poodle, Hiking, reading Sci-Fi and fantasy books, puzzles, playing musical instruments, card games (bridge)
Birthday:
June 25
Favorite Color:
10 microns
Alma Mater:
University of Arizona
Reasons for Choosing Penn State:
Great school in a little town, I wouldn't really like living in too big a city. Plus Penn State is rapidly growing and it is nice to be part of that growth.
Stephen RedmanEmail: redman @ astro.psu.eduURL: http://www.astro.psu.edu/~redman/ |
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Research Interests:
Building and testing a prototype for an instrument that will be used to search for Earth-sized planets around M stars.
Research Advisor:
Lawrence Ramsey, Alex Wolszczan
Other Interests:
Egypt, Peru, Belize, the study of religion (particularly the history of faith healing), acting, singing, and snails
Birthday:
February 20
Favorite Color:
Maxfield Parish Blue
Alma Mater:
U. Vermont
Reasons for Choosing Penn State:
Friendly faculty, lots of research opportunities, and a growing department
Michael StrohEmail: stroh @ astro.psu.eduURL: http://www.astroh.org |
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Research Interests:
Gravitational radiation and cosmology
Research Advisor:
N/A
Other Interests:
24, The Shield, wasting my time online (sometimes involves WoW), cooking, pets
Birthday:
September 12
Favorite Color:
Blue
Alma Mater:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Reasons for Choosing Penn State:
CGWP
Jason YoungEmail: jyoung @ astro.psu.eduURL: N/A |
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Research Interests:
galaxies, infrared astronomy, general relativity, brown dwarves / extra solar planets
Research Advisor:
Other Interests:
amateur astronomy, science fiction, plants / gardening, crystal growing
Birthday:
November 13
Favorite Color:
green, by far
Alma Mater:
University of Arizona
Reasons for Choosing Penn State:
It had the greatest breadth of research interests out of the schools that accepted me.
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