Recent works by WestConn Astronomy students

Ashley CwiklaScience for Visually Impaired Students (WestConn Research Day, May 2007)

Kenneth Gardner, Gale Alexander, Brian Bartolo, Kerry Perrotta, Kathryn Sullivan and John DePasqua The Overcontact Binary GSC 279—321: Observations and Modeling (10th CSU Research Conference, 2006)

Kathleen MurphyObservations and Numerical Modeling of Contact and Overcontact Eclipsing Binaries – WCSU Observatory internship, 2004-05

Melanie HennesseyProperties of Cepheid Variable Stars Identified in Sky Surveys; presented at the 17tth National Conference on Undergraduate Research, University of Utah, March 13-15, 2003

Sandra J. Cvanciger, Michael Dyer, Christopher Lazzaro and Danielle MancusoObservation and Modeling of the Eclipsing Binary RW Comae Berenices; published in the Proceedings, 17th National Conference on Undergraduate Research, University of Utah, March 13-15, 2003

Danielle MancusoObservations of the Open Star Cluster NGC 7510 (student research, Spring 2002)

Timothy HagerPhotometry and a Preliminary Solution for the New Eclipsing Binary GSC 4847 – 1513; Master’s thesis in Earth and Planetary Science, June 2001

Michael SembosMicrovariability of Blazar OQ 530; published in the Proceedings, 15th National Conference on Undergraduate Research, University of Kentucky, March 15-17, 2001


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