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Five-College Astronomy Undergraduate Internship Program


The Five College Astronomy Department offers several undergraduate research internships with department faculty. The internships will last for ten weeks, and will provide a stipend of $4000 for 2008.The summer program will include activities with other astronomy summer students and research talks by local astronomers.  Joint activities with other undergraduate summer programs at UMass are also being planned.

The Five College Astronomy Department conducts research in a wide variety of areas, including the astrophysics of stars, the interstellar medium, and galaxies. There are opportunities to work with radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray data and instruments, and to carry out computer modeling, instrument development, and data analysis. More information is available online.

Eligibility: You must be enrolled at one of the Five Colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, or UMass) and not scheduled to graduate before the end of 2008. The internships are open to astronomy majors, and majors in math and sciences who are actively considering a career in astronomy. Juniors planning to write a senior research thesis in astronomy are especially encouraged to apply. Here is a pdf copy of the application form. Applications are due by Friday, March 1st, 2008 for full consideration.

2008 Summer Internship Class:
Student                     College             Advisor
Dan Moriarty          UMass             Grant Wilson
Gideon Bass            Hampshire      Salman Hameed/Daniel Wang
Lauren Harley         UMass            Gopal Narayanan
Shaina Rogstad       UMass            Todd Tripp/Daniel Wang
Jessica O'Connor     UMass            Mark Heyer    
Samuel Bell 11         Amherst         Steve Schneider
Roger Ledgister      UMass            Daniel Wang
David Welch             UMass            Daniel Wang


Preliminary Schedule: (June 2 -   Aug. 8, 2008)

Week
 activity
 Person setting up the video projector
6/2
 Monday: Meet your advisor
1:30PM: Introduction to Computing and IDL by Mark Heyer and Daniel J. Popowich (6th floor conference room 644)
4:00PM: Get together party (room 518)
Daniel Wang
6/6
 Friday, UMass REU barbeque at 5-7:300PM in the Northeast quad behind Lewis. (In Lewis in case of rain.)
6/12
 Thursday (room 644, 1:30PM): talk by Daniel Wang
 David Welch  
6/19
 Thursday (room 644, 1:30PM): talk by Gopal Narayanan
 Lauren Harley
6/26
 Thursday (room 644, 1:30PM): talk by Aeree Chung
 Jessica O'Connor
7/3
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7/10
 Thursday (room 644, 1:30PM): Steve Schneider
 Samuel Bell 11
7/17
 Thursday (room 644, 1:30PM): talk by Todd Tripp (to be confirmed)
 Shaina Rogstad
7/24 Thursday (room 644, 1:30PM): talk by Grant Wilson
 Dan Moriarty
7/31
Thursday (room 644, 1:30PM): Presentation by students
Gideon Bass
8/7
 Thursday (room 644, 1:30PM): Presentation by students 
 Roger Ledgister


2007 Summer Internship Class

The internship program is largely funded by the van Blerkom fellowship and the Five College Astronomy Department  as well as  the Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium.

For more information, contact
Q. Daniel Wang
Director of Five-College Astronomy Undergraduate Internship Program
Astronomy Department, 619 Lederle Graduate Research Center
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
email: wqd@astro.umass.edu
Tel.: (413)545-2131     Fax: (413)545-4223
URL: http://www.astro.umass.edu/~wqd/