Cornell Astronomy REU Participant Wins Prestigious Chambliss Award

January 20th, 2015

ITHACA - One of the students participating in Cornell's 2014 Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program, Jaclyn Bradli from Rutgers University, has won a Chambliss Student Poster Award at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Seattle, Washington  in January 2015. Jaclyn received this award for a poster presenting her summer research on gravitational lens modeling of a distant, dust-obscured galaxy observed ~1 billion years after the big bang at Cornell, which she carried out with Prof. Dominik Riechers and Dr. Shane Bussmann.

The abstract of the award-winning contribution entitled "Analyzing Star Formation Properties in Dusty Early Universe Galaxies Using Gravitational Lensing" by Bradli, Jaclyn C.; Bussmann, R. Shane; Riechers, Dominik A.; Clements, David; Perez-Fournon, Ismael can be found here.

The REU program is funded by the National Science Foundation.