URPA 2001

 

 

 

 

Erica Lamar and Chad Williams from SCSU worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Lamar was involved with the development of a new generation of CCDs and Williams was part of the MACHO Project.

 

 

 

 

 

Vincent Davis of Elizabeth City State University and Nelvin Thomas, a recent graduate in Mathematics from the University of the Virgin Islands, searched the night skies for asteroids as part of a collaboration between SCSU and the Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona.

 

 

 

Mayra Tovar, a recent graduate in Mathematics from California State University, Northridge worked with a team of scientists conducting solar research at the Goddard Space Flight Center.

 

 

 

 

Three of the five URPA participants (Lamar, Davis and Thomas), have also spent past summers in SCSU's Undergraduate Research Institute in Astrophysics program.

 

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