Ashley Wiren and Tiffany Borders building a new spectrometer for the SSU Observatory as a project in Dr. Brock Weiss’s modern physics lab.

Students Selected for Summer Research Programs
Ashley Wiren

This summer Tiffany Borders will be heading off to Baltimore to work at the Space Telescope Science Institute in the Science Division under the supervision of Keith Noll, Lisa Fratarre, and Zult Levay. Tiffany will be working as part of the Hubble Heritage Program which works with images taken with the HST and delivers them to the web at http://heritage.stsci.edu. Tiffany states, “I am very excited to receive this opportunity to work at STScI especially at such an exciting time for Hubble and its new Advanced Camera for Surveys. I believe this will be a beneficial learning experience for me and my future as an astronomer.”

Also this summer Ashley Wiren will be going to a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at the University of Minnesota. There Ashley will be assisting in various ongoing research projects in such areas as high energy and space physics. Ashley says “I am looking forward to doing research for the summer. Even with the specifics of the research unclear, I still think it will be a great experience.”

Staying right here at SSU will be John Collins, who has been awarded the Michael and Sheila McQuillen Assistantship to work with Dr. Izaguirre on biomolecular photonics.