Congratulations Class of 2023!
Lacey Allee-Press
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Astronomy, cum laude, with High Honors. She received the following awards and honors:
- Banneker/Key Scholarship
- (2022) Department of Astronomy's Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award
- Dean's List
- Gemstone Honors Citation
She will be working at the Space Telescope Science Institute during the summer on a paper about Active Galactic Nuclei and their host galaxies and in the fall will be attending grad school for Astronomy at UMD.
David Bour
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Physics with a minor in Classical Mythology and a bachelor's degree in Astronomy. He received the following awards and honors:
- President's Scholarship
He will be attending the University of Cambridge in the UK.
Jared Dorf
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Astronomy.
Austen Fourkas
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Physics and bachelor's degree in Astronomy with High Honors. He received the following awards and honors:
- Dean's List
He will be applying for post-baccalaureate research positions for radio astronomy and star formation.
Fred Angelo Batan Garcia
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Physics with High Honors with a double major in Astronomy with High Honors. He received the following awards and honors:
- (2023) Undergraduate Researchers of the Year
He will be attending graduate school in Astronomy at Columbia University.
Orion Guiffreda
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Astronomy. He received the following awards and honors:
- President's Scholarship
- Dean's List
He is applying for post-baccalaureate research positions studying active galaxies, starbursts, and galactic winds.
Ronan Hix
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Physics with High Honors with a minor in German studies and a bachelor's degree in Astronomy with High Honors. He received the following awards and honors:
- President's Scholarship
- Dean's List
- University Honors Citation
- Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Academic Scholarship
He will be attending graduate school in Astronomy at Princeton University.
Willow Houck
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Astronomy with a minor in Planetary Sciences.
She will be applying for post-baccalaureate research positions for exoplanetary atmospheres.
Rohan Kane
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Astronomy with a minor in History.
He is applying for post-baccalaureate research positions to study galaxies.
Shreya Karthikeyan
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Astronomy, cum laude, with High Honors. She received the following awards and honors:
- Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Award
- NSF REU Grant (twice)
- DCC Honors College Citation
She will be attending graduate school in Astronomy at UCLA.
Delina Levine
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Physics with a minor in Music Performance and a bachelor's degree in Astronomy. She received the following awards and honors:
- Banneker/Key Scholarship and induction into Sigma Pi Sigma
She will be attending graduate school in Astronomy at Caltech.
Siobhan Light
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Geology with a minor in Atmospheric Sciences and a bachelor's degree in Astronomy. She received the following awards and honors:
- NOAA Hollings Scholar
- Banneker/Key Scholarship
- Honors in Geology
- University Honors Citation
- Dean's List
She will be a summer intern at NASA Goddard.
Samuel Little
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Physics with a double major in Astronomy.
After a summer job in San Francisco with a satellite startup called Astranis, he will begin the Master's program in applied physics at Towson University in the fall.
Frederica Liu
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Physics with a double major in Astronomy.
Nicholas Magnelli
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Physics with Honors and a bachelor's degree in Astronomy with High Honors.
He will be attending graduate school for cosmology at Kansas State University.
William Marshal
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Physics with a double major in Astronomy.
Samyak Mehta
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Physics with a double major in Astronomy.
Joao Felipe Sousa Pereira
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Physics and a bachelor's degree in Astronomy. He received the following awards and honors:
- Angelo Bardassis Scholarship
- Joseph Helfand Memorial Scholarship
- Dean's List
- Completed the First-Year Innovation and Research Experience
He will be attending graduate school for Physics at George Mason University.
Tyler Pettway
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Astronomy with a double major in Computer Science.
Rose Riggs
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a bachelor's degree in Astronomy. She received the following awards and honors:
- Dean's List
- Honors Citation for the Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students
She will be working at JPMorgan Chase in Seattle as a software engineer.
Andrew Robinson
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Astronomy.
He will be a counselor at AstroCamp over the summer and then returning to UMD in the Fall for a certification in secondary education.
Elaine Taylor
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Physics with a double major in Astronomy. She received the following awards and honors:
- President's Scholarship
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Dean's List
She will be attending graduate school for Physics at Stanford University.
Rachel Weller
...is graduating with a bachelor's degree in Physics with a double major in Astronomy with High Honors. She received the following awards and honors:
- Dean's List
She will be attending graduate school for Physics and Astronomy at the University of New Mexico.
PhDs since last Spring!
Fu, Guangwei
"A Study of Diverse Hot Jupiter Atmospheres."
He is an assistant research scientist in Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University.
Ward, Charlotte
"Tracing the Formation and Merger-Driven Growth of Massive Black Holes with the Zwicky Transient Facility."
She received the following awards and honors:
- (2023) Martin and Beat Block Winter Award, Aspen Center for Physics
- (2022) PI: Investigating 10 candidates for gravitational wave recoil from an SMBH merger, NASA Keck, 2023A
- (2020) UMD Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship
- (2019) HEP Center for Computational Excellence Graduate Summer Internship, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- (2017) UMD College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences Dean's Fellowship
She is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University.
Liu, Weizhe
"Active Galactic Nucleus Feedback in Giants and Dwarfs."
He received the following awards and honors:
- (2021) Andrew S. Wilson Prize for Excellence in Research
- (2018) John Chi-Lin Wang Award for Academic Excellence
He is currently a JWST Arizona/Steward Postdoc in Early galaxies and Reionization (JASPER) Scholar at the University of Arizona.
Ahumada-Mena, Tomas
"A portrait of the binary compact merger as a young: Short GRB, Gravitational Wave, Afterglow and Kilonova."
He is a postdoctoral research associate at the California Institute of Technology.
Agrusa, Harrison
"On the Dynamics of Binary Asteroids Applied to DART Mission Target (65803) Didymos."
He received the following awards and honors:
- (2019) John Chi-Lin Wang Award for Academic Excellence
Tarantino, Elizabeth (Liz)
"Physical Conditions of the Multi-Phase Interstellar Medium in Nearby Galaxies from Infrared and Millimeter-Wave Spectroscopy."
She received the following awards and honors:
- (2020) ALMA Student Observing Support Award
- (2017) Philip E. Angerhofer Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Li, Jialu
"Molecular Spectroscopy of Star Forming Regions: Cool and Hot, Close and Far."
He, ChongChong
"Multiscale Radiation-MHD Simulations of Compact Star Clusters."
He received the following awards and honors:
- (2021) Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST)
- (2021) University of Maryland Graduate School Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship
He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Australian National University.
Crnogorčević, Milena
"New Messengers and New Physics: A Survey of the High-energy Universe."
She received the following awards and honors:
- (2022) Fermi GI Program Cycle 15: Principal Investigator
- (2022) Andrew S. Wilson Prize for Excellence in Research
- (2022) Department of Astronomy's Service Award
- (2022) Best Poster Award, 19th Divisional Meeting of HEAD
- (2021) Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award
- (2021) Best Talk Promotion Video, Kashiwa Dark Matter Symposium
- (2020) John Mather Nobel Scholar
- (2019-20) College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences Dean's Fellowship
- (2017-18) Graduate School Dean's Fellowship
She is headed to Stockholm University as the Oskar Klein Center postdoctoral fellow to work with Tim Linden.