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Third Year Grads

Penn State Astronomy & Astrophysics

Last updated: 21 October 2007

These are the Third Years. They started their journey through grad school in Fall 2005.


[ Bin Luo | Amanda Morrow | Stephen Redman | Michael Stroh | Jason Young ]


Bin Luo

Email: lbin @ astro.psu.edu

URL: N/A

Bin
Research Interests:

AGNs and their interaction with surrounding galaxies.

Research Advisor:

Niel Brandt

Other Interests:

Movies, science fiction and fantasy novels

Birthday:

April 25

Favorite Color:

Black and red

Alma Mater:

Tsinghua U., P. R. China

Reasons for Choosing Penn State:

Strong astronomy programs, especially in high energy astrophysics.

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Amanda Morrow

Email: morrow @ astro.psu.edu

URL: http://www.astro.psu.edu/~morrow/

Amanda
Research Interests:

Gravity waves, galaxy formation and evolution, cosmology, large scale structure, science politics and trends

Research Advisor:

Kevin Luhman

Other Interests:

Playing with a toy poodle, Hiking, reading Sci-Fi and fantasy books, puzzles, playing musical instruments, card games (bridge)

Birthday:

June 25

Favorite Color:

10 microns

Alma Mater:

University of Arizona

Reasons for Choosing Penn State:

Great school in a little town, I wouldn't really like living in too big a city. Plus Penn State is rapidly growing and it is nice to be part of that growth.

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Stephen Redman

Email: redman @ astro.psu.edu

URL: http://www.astro.psu.edu/~redman/

Stephen
Research Interests:

Building and testing a prototype for an instrument that will be used to search for Earth-sized planets around M stars.

Research Advisor:

Lawrence Ramsey, Alex Wolszczan

Other Interests:

Egypt, Peru, Belize, the study of religion (particularly the history of faith healing), acting, singing, and snails

Birthday:

February 20

Favorite Color:

Maxfield Parish Blue

Alma Mater:

U. Vermont

Reasons for Choosing Penn State:

Friendly faculty, lots of research opportunities, and a growing department

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Michael Stroh

Email: stroh @ astro.psu.edu

URL: http://www.astroh.org

Michael
Research Interests:

Gravitational radiation and cosmology

Research Advisor:

N/A

Other Interests:

24, The Shield, wasting my time online (sometimes involves WoW), cooking, pets

Birthday:

September 12

Favorite Color:

Blue

Alma Mater:

University of Colorado at Boulder

Reasons for Choosing Penn State:

CGWP

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Jason Young

Email: jyoung @ astro.psu.edu

URL: N/A

Jason
Research Interests:

galaxies, infrared astronomy, general relativity, brown dwarves / extra solar planets

Research Advisor:

Caryl Gronwall

Other Interests:

amateur astronomy, science fiction, plants / gardening, crystal growing

Birthday:

November 13

Favorite Color:

green, by far

Alma Mater:

University of Arizona

Reasons for Choosing Penn State:

It had the greatest breadth of research interests out of the schools that accepted me.

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