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- Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science (APS) undergraduate Eli Resnick was selected as a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Hollings scholar. Program participants receive up to $9,500 of academic assistance per year for two years of full-time study and a 10-week, full-time paid internship at a NOAA facility during the summer.
- Igor Steinmacher, an associate professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, and his research team attended the International Conference in Software Engineering (ICSE) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in April. There, graduate student Pedro Arantes and undergraduate student Samuel Utzinger competed in the ACM Student Research Competition finals. After having their paper and poster evaluated, Utzinger went to the final oral presentation phase and finished in second place.
- Multiple APS students attended the 65th annual Arizona and Southern Nevada branch meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Tuba City on April 11. Graduate students Micheal Strane and Sam Lockhart had oral presentations, and undergraduate students Eli Resnick, Kate Killebrew, Brad Tsosie, Marin Hanson and Bradley Braibish presented posters on their meteor crater research. Resnick, Tsosie and undergrad Austin Gadd also presented their research at the Arizona NASA Space Grant Consortium Student Research Symposium the following weekend.
- APS graduate student Sam Hemmelgarn was the lead author on the paper “A Machine Learning Approach to Meteor Classification,” published in Icarus. Authors used machine learning to develop a framework for classifying meteoroids based on 13 parameters from the Global Meteor Network.
- APS alumna Catherine Clark’s recent paper, “The POKEMON Speckle Survey of Nearby M dwarfs. IV. Distance-Limited Catalog (POKEMON-DLC),” was selected for publication in the Astronomical Journal. This is the fourth paper in a series that began with Clark’s doctoral research and includes research professor Gerard van Belle as a co-author.
- APS Chair David Trilling was the lead author on the recently published paper “The Solar System Notification Alert Processing System (SNAPS): Public access to SNAPS data and products.” The living document detailing how readers can access and interact with the research team’s databases also features School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS) associate professor Michael Gowanlock; SICCS research software engineer Revanth Munugala; alumnus Daniel Kramer; graduate students Maria Chernyavskaya, Erin Clark and Graceson Mule; and alumna Savannah Chappus.