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The REU Program Comes to CTIO (1Mar95)
(from CTIO, NOAO Newsletter No. 41, 1 March 1995)

Beginning in mid-January, visitors to CTIO will see some new, young faces
in La Serena and on the mountain.  The popular and productive NSF-funded
Research Experiences for Undergraduates program will bring 4 US college
students to CTIO for a period of 11 weeks, where they will work with staff
astronomers on a variety of research projects.  They will be joined by a
master's student from the University of Chile for the month of February.

Students will live on the La Serena compound, but an important part of their
experience will be opportunities to observe, so don't be surprised to see them
on the mountain.  Their program also includes weekly seminars by staff to
introduce them to observational techniques and the science done at CTIO.
The five students inaugurating the program are:

Howard Beckley (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology) is
working with Jack Baldwin, Richard Elston, and Brooke Gregory on a suite
of instrumentation projects.

Ive Kohnenkamp (University of Chile) is  working with Mark Phillips and
Mario Hamuy on the CTIO supernova survey.

Marc Kassis (Willamette University) is  working with Eileen Friel on deep
CCD photometry of old open clusters in the outer Galactic disk.

Maritza Tavarez (Hunter College of CUNY) is  working with Richard Elston
on IR properties of supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Sarah Tuttle (University of California, Santa Cruz) is working with Malcolm
Smith on a search for QSOs at very high redshift.

We are pleased to have these students with us, and look forward to a
productive future for the REU student program at CTIO.  Keep us in mind
next fall when we hope to offer this program for undergraduate students
again.

Eileen Friel

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