Hello! My name is Catalina Zamora and I am a freshman here at UW. I am from Flemington, New Jersey which is roughly 20 minutes from the Pennsylvania border. I have always loved astronomy growing up and when I took my first physics class I really enjoyed that as well…
Hi, my name is Jamel Adilia and I’m a freshman. I’m from Renton and went to Renton High School. I enjoy astronomy, video games and music. I like science, specifically astronomy because when I was a child I bought a book that contained a bunch of images from Hubble and…
Hi, my name is Maddi and I’m currently a freshman at UW intending to major in Math or Stats or something. I took Pre-MAP because it gave me the ability to start research early and gave me insight into what astronomy work is like along with several other topics. I…
I’m Brittany Platt and I’m from Alameda, a small island in the Bay Area of California. I am currently a junior double majoring in astronomy and physics. Like many others, I have this fundamental curiosity of my place in the world, and I am thrilled that I have the opportunity…
Hi, my name is Caitlyn Wilhelm and I went to high school at South Kitsap High School in Port Orchard, Washington. My intended major is Astronomy and Physics. My passion for astronomy stemmed from watching the night sky from my secluded house in the woods. My hobbies include video gaming,…
Hello, my name is Esmeralda Manjarrez. I’m a first generation college student and Chicana from eastern Washington planning on double majoring in astronomy and physics. I enjoy attending concerts, as well as dancing, and drinking copious amounts of bubble tea. I joined pre-map because science is pretty rad and also…
My name is Andi Bergeson and I am from infinite-sunshine-land, aka Orange County, California. In infinite-sunshine-land, I did various things, like play the saxophone in my marching band and read comic books and sleep! I watched a lot of Star Trek (The Original Series) with my dad when I was…
My name is Maggie Paige. I grew (most of the way) up on Orcas Island, WA, and attended Orcas Island High School before coming here to UW. I did Pre-MAP because I find physics and astronomy to be particularly alluring fields of study and I wanted to explore my interests…
Hi I’m Teagan, and I like the internet and space. Trees are cool too, I guess. I’m a freshman at the time of writing this, and I intend to major in Astronomy and Physics. I spent the last nine years surviving in the deserts of the Eastern valley of Arizona,…
Advisor: Brett Morris Description: As of September 2015 more than 5000 exoplanets, or planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, have been discovered. The most successful planet discovery method to date is the “transit method”, which discovers planets by carefully monitoring the brightness of stars. If a star has an…
Advisors: Professor Tom Quinn and Michael Tremmel Description: From our own Milky Way to large galaxies at the centers of clusters, it appears that all galaxies host at least one large black hole at their center. While we call these central black holes “Super-massive’’, they are quite small compared to…
Advisor: Joseph Huehnerhoff Description: Cooling of large telescopes directly affects the quality of the science obtained.Anemometer stations have been placed around the dome of the 3.5m telescope at Apache Point Observatory to characterize the movement of air in the dome. This project will be to analyze this data in a…