Individual Student Projects Supervised by Professor Kim Venn

Fall 2001: One four-credit student project,

• Sonya Clarkson (Biology '02)
  Astrophysics (Phys60)
  

Spring 2001: Two four-credit student projects,

• Jesse Ball (Physics'01)
  "Measuring Hubble's Law using the new Macalester
  College Observatory Spectrograph"
  
• Lissa Miller (Physics'02)
  "Analysis of Stars of NGC 6822: The Search for Metallicity
  Gradients in Dwarf Irregular Galaxies from VLT Spectroscopy

Fall 2000: One senior thesis project,

• Alyson Brooks(Physics'00)
  "Boron Abundances in Two SMC B-stars from HST
  Spectroscopy: Testing Light Element Formation"
  

Spring 2000: Two two-credit student project,

• Lissa Miller (Physics'02)
  "Examination of IRAF Tutorial Exercises"
  and, "Open Observatory Leader"
  

Fall 1999: Two two-credit student projects,

• Adam Fallon (Physics'02)
  "Determination of Terminal Wind Velocities from
  Hubble Space Telescope Data - LMC and SMC A-type Supergiants"
• Brooke Darrah (Physics'02)
  "Spectral Types of Magellanic Bridge Stars" &
  "Line Measurements of a supergiant in NGC 6822"

Spring 1999: One four-credit student project,

• Denis Foo Kune (Comp.Sci'99)
  "Stellar analysis of Star cc in NGC 6822 from KECK HIRES data"

Fall 1998: Three two-credit student projects,

• Matt Culp (Physics'98)
  Origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays
• Megan Auger (Poli.Sci'99)
  "Public Night Coordinator at the Macalester College Observatory"
• Alyson Brooks (Physics'00)
  "IRAF Spectroscopic Data Reduction Methods"

Spring 1998: Six four-credit student projects,

• Denis Foo Kune (Comp.Sci.'99)
  Systems Manager for the Digital Astronomy Center.
• Momar Dieng (Physics'99)
  "Determination of Terminal Wind Velocities from
  Hubble Space Telescope Data - LMC and SMC A-type Supergiants"
• Ricardo Gonzalez-Franco (Comp.Sci.'99)
  "Determination of Terminal Wind Velocities from
  Hubble Space Telescope Data - SMC A-type Supergiants"
• Alyson Brooks (Physics'99)
  Observing projects with the (old!) 8" Meade telescope
  CCD observations of a variable star light curve.
• Megan Auger (Poli.Sci'99)
  Observing projects with the (old!) 8" Meade telescope
  Color-magnitude diagram for an old globular cluster.
• Katy Headbloom (English'00)
  Observing projects with the (old!) 8" Meade telescope
  Color-magnitude diagram for a young open cluster

Spring 1997: One four-credit student project,

• Tom Duterme (Physics'97)
  "Determination of Terminal Wind Velocities from
  Hubble Space Telescope Data - Six A-type Supergiants"