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"