项目介绍

2022年9月29日

Graduate students in our program pursue research in planetary and exoplanetary science, galactic and extra-galactic astronomy and cosmology. They are involved in instrumentation design and development, astronomical observation and data analysis, complex computational simulations and astrophysics theory.

Our students work on NASA missions such as the Mars Exploration Rovers, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Spitzer Space Telescope, Cassini and Herschel, the SOFIA airborne observatory, and building instruments and observing with ground based telescopes around the world (e.g. Arecibo, ALMA, CSO, Hawaii, Green Bank), as well as planning for the future with the CCAT and LSST telescopes.

Given the breadth of interests our students have, we work hard in our program to provide each student with the support they need as they pursue their individual career path. Each graduate student is involved in selecting their thesis committee, a group of 4 faculty members from within our Department and the University more broadly, who are there to provide personalized guidance to the student.

As well as helping students to become successful scientists, and go onto become postdoctoral researchers, faculty members and scientists at National Laboratories, this has also recently involved supporting students in their desires to develop and run outreach and Cornell teaching programs.