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1993 KPNO Summer Students (1Sep93)
(from KPNO, NOAO Newsletter No. 35, 1 September 1993)

KPNO is pleased to again play host to students from the Research
Experience for Undergraduates Program, funded by the NSF. Six students
are working with KPNO staff members this summer.

Anastasia Alexov, a senior at Wesleyan University, is working with
Michael Pierce and David Silva.  They are studying the distribution of
galaxy types in intermediate-redshift galaxy clusters.

Tracey Buettgens, an astronomy and physics major at the University of
Rochester, is working with Nigel Sharp. Her project is a study of the
galaxy NGC 3310, which has an unusual amount of star formation occurring
in its central regions.

Carlos Cortes, a senior at Vassar College, is studying with David De
Young. They are calculating the airflow dynamics over the telescope
sites at Kitt Peak and Sacramento Peak, using existing topographic data
and a Cray supercomputer.

Wendy Forrester, a senior at Smith College, is working with Ata
Sarajedini. They are constructing globular cluster color-magnitude
diagrams in order to study the clusters' blue straggler population.

Amy Lesser, a physics and philosophy major at Mt.  Holyoke College, is
doing a project with Alain Porter. She is using ground-based and
satellite data to investigate active galactic nuclei, in particular 3C
345.

Lynn Weller, a senior at the University of Arizona, is working with
Caty Pilachowski. They are studying lithium abundances in a young open
cluster.

Caty Pilachowski

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