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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 2007.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 2007. 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 31st, 2007.

2007 Summer Internship Class:
Student                     College             Advisor
Steven Morton          Hampshire      Salman Hameed
Amy Langford           Mt. Holyoke     Gopal Narayanan
Shaina Rogstad         UMass             Min S. Yun
Coleman Krawczyk    UMass             Mark Heyer
Mike Okrochkov        UMass             Daniel Wang
Jared Rand                 UMass             Grant Wilson
Maria Rosasco          Amherst           Arielle Phillips
Kelsey Hattam          Smith                Suzan Edwards

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Preliminary Schedule: (June 4 -   Aug. 10, 2007)

Week
 activity
6/4
 Monday: Meet your advisor
2:00PM: Introduction to Computing and IDL by Mark Heyer and possibly Daniel J. Popowich (6th floor conference room 644)
4:00PM: Get together party (room 518)
6/14
 Thursday (room 644, 1:30PM): talk by Daniel Wang
6/21
 Thursday (room 644, 1:30PM): talk by Gopal Narayanan
6/28
 Thursday (room 644, 1:30PM): talk by Grant Wilson
7/5
 Thursday (room 644, 1:30PM): talk by Min Yun
7/12
 Thursday (room 644, 1:30PM): no talk
7/19
 Thursday (room 644, 1:30PM): talk by Daniela Galzetti
7/26 Thursday (room 644, 1:30PM): talk by Suzan Edwards
8/2 Thursday (room 644, 1:30PM): Presentation by students (Jared, Kelsey, Coleman, Mike)
8/9
 Thursday (room 644, 1:30PM): Presentation by students (Maria, Amy, Steven, Shaina)

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/