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I am a graduate student in the Laboratory for Millimeter-wave
Astronomy group, working under the direction of Stuart Vogel, as well
as external advisers Sheila Kannappan(UNC) and Andrew
Baker(Rutgers). I study the potential for morphological evolution of
nearby field elliptical and S0 galaxies. 


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My thesis focuses on finding direct support for gaseous disk regrowth
in blue-sequence E/S0s from radio data as a part of an in-depth
multi-wavelength study of nearby field E/SOs. I use CARMA, GBT, and
VLA to probe the sizes and spatial extent of the molecular/atomic gas
reservoirs, and use the kinematic information from the maps to
determine the evolutionary state of these galaxies. 
 

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I also look at galaxies detected in the near- and far-UV by GALEX and
compare them with with a 1.2mm dust emission map of the NTT Deep Field
to determine the total contributions to the far-IR/submillimeter
background and the cosmic star formation rate density from UV-selected
galaxies out of z ~ 1.