{"id":8,"date":"2010-05-25T00:57:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T00:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/blogs\/astronoblog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2010-05-25T00:57:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T00:57:38","slug":"welcome-to-haverfords-astronoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/2010\/05\/25\/welcome-to-haverfords-astronoblog\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Haverford’s Astronoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

The end of the academic year might seem like a strange time to begin a blog, but there is usually something interesting happening in Haverford’s astronomy program.\u00a0 So no time like the present!<\/p>\n

One of the best things about astronomy at Haverford is our great students.\u00a0 During final exam week, I hosted a dinner party at my apartment for my astronomy research students and students in my classes.\u00a0 Armed with some photos from this festive event, I’m going to open up Astronoblog by celebrating the six seniors that just graduated with a degree in either Astronomy or Astrophysics.<\/p>\n

Here I am with my three freshly graduated seniors: Alex Warres, Dylan Hatt, (me), and Gail Gutowski.\u00a0 I’m pretty sure Alex is going to be a teacher at an astronomy camp this summer.\u00a0 Dylan is soon heading to Max Planck Institute in Germany with a Fulbright fellowship to study astronomy.\u00a0 Gail is now at Haverford to write a paper on her thesis work and will then head to UT Austin for a geophysics research position.<\/p>\n

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Here is Scott Ogden (left) with his advisor Steve Boughn.\u00a0 Steve is another astronomy professor here.\u00a0 Unfortunately for us, Steve will be on sabbatical for the next year.\u00a0 Scott is heading off to earn a master’s degree in applied math at Stonybrook.<\/p>\n

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Last, but certaintly not least, are Tyler Evans and Nick Vechik.\u00a0 Missing between them is Bruce Partridge, their research advisor and my esteemed predecessor.\u00a0 Bruce had just flown in from a meeting in Paris so needed to retire from the party early.\u00a0 Nick worked with Bruce on both radio astronomy research and on astronomy education.\u00a0 He might continue some of his work over the summer.\u00a0 Tyler may also continue working with Bruce over the summer, and will then head to Swinburne University in Australia for a PhD program in astronomy.<\/p>\n

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After all of these student-advisor photo ops, the students suggested a group shot with Scott Shelley, the physics lab instructor who taught all of them in multiple lab classes:<\/p>\n

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Congratulations to all six of our seniors for their past accomplishments and bright future prospects!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The end of the academic year might seem like a strange time to begin a blog, but there is usually something interesting happening in Haverford’s astronomy program.\u00a0 So no time like the present! One of the best things about astronomy at Haverford is our great students.\u00a0 During final exam week, I hosted a dinner party … Continue reading “Welcome to Haverford’s Astronoblog”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}