2021 Student cohort
2021 Student cohort
The 2021 REU students and research mentors at UW Bothell.
The 2021 student cohort
In 2021, 23 students participated in the UWB Physics REU Program. Some students were on campus, and others participated remotely.
The 2021 UWB Physics REU Program was supported by NSF REU award #2050928 with additional funding from NSF, the UWB Physical Sciences Division, the UW Research Royalty Fund, and the Washington NASA Space Grant.
Below you will find information about the talented students who worked with us during summer 2021.
Students listed in alphabetical order by last name.
Adrienne Beggs
Berea College
Mentor: Dr. Eric Salathé
Research project: Computational Modeling: Atmospheric Physics and Climate Change
Mikel Charles
UW Bothell
Mentor: Dr. Paola Rodríguez Hidalgo
Research project: Finding Extremely High-Velocity Outflows in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16 Quasars
Cora DeFrancesco
University of Oklahoma, Astrophysics and Math
Mentor: Dr. Paola Rodríguez Hidalgo
Research project: Finding Extremely High-Velocity Outflows in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16 Quasars
Andrew Evans
Sonoma State University, Physics and Math
Mentor: Dr. Luisa T. Buchman
Research project: Higher Order Boundary Conditions to Improve Gravitational Waveforms from Binary Black Hole Simulations
Beth Gallatin
South Puget Sound Community College
Mentor: Dr. Amy Robertson
Research project: Sensemaking in circuit analysis: Identifying students’ conceptual resources in a small group environment
Wendy Garcia Naranjo
UW Bothell, Physics
Mentor: Dr. Paola Rodríguez Hidalgo
Research project: Finding Extremely High-Velocity Outflows in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16 Quasars
Kyle Gersbach
UW Bothell, Physics and Computer Science Software Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Joey Shapiro Key
Research project: Improving LISA’s Galactic Binary Analysis Software with Parallelization
Justin Heckt
UW Bothell
Mentor: Dr. Subramanian Ramachandran
Research project: Preliminary Experiments Involving Thermal Evaporation of Bi2Te3 and Seebeck Coefficient Measurements
Nathnael Kahassai
University of North Carolina, Physics
Mentor: Dr. Paola Rodríguez Hidalgo
Research project: Finding Extremely High-Velocity Outflows in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16 Quasars
Tim Kostersitz
UW Bothell
Mentor: Dr. Luisa T. Buchman
Research project: Improvement of Outer Boundary Conditions for Binary Black Hole Numerical Simulations
Chris McJunkin
UW Bothell
Mentor: Dr. Eric Salathé
Research project: Heat Wave Projections for the PNW
August Muller
Haverford College, Physics
Mentor: Dr. Joey Shapiro Key
Research project: Finding EMRIs in Simulated LISA Data
Cuauhtliztac Nicholas
Green River College
Mentor: Dr. Subramanian Ramachandran
Research project: Applications of Thin Films in Optics, Superconductivity, and Surface Science
MarÃa Notario
UW Seattle
Mentor: Dr. Ansel Neunzert
Research project: Identification and Characterization of LIGO Spectral Artifacts
Alicia Palmerin
Colgate College, Astrophysics
Mentor: Dr. Joseph Glaser
Research project: OBSCURE: Determining the Likelihood of Exoplanetary System Configurations from Observational Catalogs
Michael Parker
William & Mary
Mentor: Dr. Paola Rodríguez Hidalgo
Research project: Finding Extremely High-Velocity Outflows in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16 Quasars
Myrla Phillippe
University of Central Florida, Physics
Mentor: Dr. Joseph Glaser
Research project: OBSCURE: Determining the Likelihood of Exoplanetary System Configurations from Observational Catalogs
Satveer Sandhu
UW Bothell
Mentor: Dr. Eric Salathé
Research project: Heat Wave Projections for the PNW
Kaia Smith
Scripps College, Physics
Mentor: Dr. Joey Shapiro Key
Research project: Finding EMRIs in Simulated LISA Data
AuDuyen Trinh
UW Seattle
Mentor: Dr. Ansel Neunzert
Research project: Identification and Characterization of LIGO Spectral Artifacts
Andrea Wooley
Western Washington University, Physics
Mentor: Dr. Rachel Scherr
Research project: Developing Professional Vision for Equity with Periscope Lessons
Kedar Yadav
UW Bothell
Mentor: Dr. Eric Salathé
Research project: Heat Wave Projections for the PNW
Christine Ye
Eastlake High School
Mentor: Dr. Jeff Hazboun
Research project: Searching for Gravitational Waves with a Galactic Array of Pulsars