Chelen Johnson
The AGNatha team will be using WISE data to identify anomalous AGN in Gaia.
I have already talked to my department about adding an astronomy research class to our class choices next year and they are very enthusiastic.
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!
To me what stood out [at my first AAS] was the wide variety of work – from characterization of the structure of the Milky Way (more of a challenge than I ever knew!) to the search for and characterization of exoplanets to the understanding of how quasar evolution relates to the origins of the Universe.