Chelen Johnson
Luminous Data Miners: Using ultraviolet images from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite and infrared images from the Spitzer Space Telescope to find a correlation between the color and luminosity of gas emission and dust emission around supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies.
I'm also here with other educators, rubbing shoulders with them, seeing how they teach things, how they frame things, like what their mindset is. I keep opening my syllabus for the fall and adding things to it based on whatever we talked about here.
NITARP has transformed my life and the way I teach, so it's difficult to find anything that has NOT been influenced by this experience!
For me as an educator, it was really rejuvenating to come out here (and bring a student with) and dive into actual astronomical research.
