2004 KPNO REU Students

Ian Roederer (Indiana University)
“Detection of Fast, Low-Amplitude Variability of Faint Red Giant Stars in the Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy”
 Advisor: Ken Mighell

Miranda Nordhaus (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
“A Hunt for Red Quasars”
 Advisor: Richard Green

Cassandra VanOutryve (University of California at Berkeley)
“A Study of Variable Stars in NGC 2301”
 Advisor: Steve Howell

Elizabeth Schmidt (Carthage College)
“Abundances in High Velocity Field AF Stars”
 Advisor: John Glaspey

Laura Kushner (University of Washington)
“Determining the Stellar Birthline for IC805”
 Advisors: Sidney Wolfe & Steve Strom

Lucas Laursen (Harvard University)
“Hubble’s Variable 19 in the Asiago Photographic Plates”
 Advisor: Lucas Macri