During the first year of the SARA REU Program, seven students participated.

Tom "T.J." Ahrens (U. Wisconsin) Mentor: Terry D. Oswalt Project: A Survey of Common Proper Motion Binaries Containing White Dwarfs

J. Paul Douglas (Florida Tech) Mentor: Gary Henson (ETSU) Project: Photometry of Long Period Late-Type Variable Stars

Roy Kilgard (VSU) Mentor: Jim Webb (FIU) Project: Target of Opportunity Blazar Observations

Allison Morrill (Florida Tech) Mentor: Ken Rumstay (VSU) Project: Monitoring Continuum Emission from Active Galactic Nuclei

Anthony J. Neal (Cornell) Mentor: Bruce Rafert (Florida Tech) Project: Computer Modeling of W Serpentis Type Binaries Through the use of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Brian G. Speck (Benedictine College) Mentor: Loris A. Magnani (UGA) Project: A Survey of Molecular Gas at High Galactic Latitudes

Shane Zabel (Carnegie Mellon) Mentor: Bruce Rafert (Florida Tech) Project: Computer Modeling of W Serpentis Type Binaries Through the use of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

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Image Gallery

The REU Group, Summer 1995.

REU observers at the SARA dome.

Dr. Terry Oswalt, Tom Ahrens, and Dr. Matt Wood at AAS meeting in San Antonio.

Allison Morrill and Dr. Kenneth Rumstay at AAS meeting.

Peter Mack at AAS meeting.

A briefing in data ethics at Valdosta State University.

Brian Speck takin' a nap.

A leisurely airboat ride.

Peter Mack and 1995 SARA intern Shane Zabel and Brian Speck (upper left) installing the shutter into the telescope.
(K. Rumstay)

Master Artist SARA Intern T.J. Ahrens hard at work. (T. Oswalt)

 

Allison Morrill and Dr. Kenneth Rumstay. (K. Rumstay)