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Nursing, Gardiner, New York
“I decided to enroll in the Three Year program because I’ve always really liked academics and I knew I could challenge myself with that. I like pushing myself to do better, and maybe finish a little quicker.”
“It’s challenging but it’s definitely worth the challenge. The people at Hartwick are great. They push you to do your best and they’re always willing to help you.”
Associate Professor of Physics, Astronomy & Planetary Sciences Program Director
“I have worked with nearly a dozen students looking at galaxies containing cool hydrogen, the raw material out of which new stars are created. The project is called the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey. It is essentially a massive census of “fertile” galaxies throughout a large portion of the local universe. We used the largest radio telescope in the world for the survey, which covers an enormous portion of the sky (28,000 “moon’s worth”) out to a distance of 800 million light years. As part of this project, several interesting individual galaxies and galaxy clusters were studied as well.”
“Students worked on all aspects of the survey research from helping to write observing proposals, to operating major telescope facilities, to writing PYTHON and IDL computer codes to analyzing the data, and finally putting together presentations for national conferences. While working on these projects, we traveled to major telescope facilities such as the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center and Green Bank Observatory and several cities for national American Astronomical Society conferences (Seattle, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Boston, Austin, Texas). My students have gone on to graduate schools in areas as diverse as astronomy, astrophysics, neuroscience, nanotech, materials science, mechanical engineering, medical school, and chemistry.”
Physics major, mathematics and philosophy minors
Ph.D. Student, Baylor College of Medicine
“I am currently a fifth year Ph.D. student in neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine. I was a physics major, and mathematics and philosophy minor. The physics and math courses have been invaluable for providing the computational skills I use daily. I took a couple of other courses such as Biological Psychiatry and Molecular Biology of the Cell that had a lot of overlap with some of my graduate level courses.”
“I decided to study neuroscience; and, the research experience I gained at Hartwick was a good introduction to academic research as well, even though it was in astrophysics instead of biology. I’ve authored papers about autism, neural computation and artificial neural networks. Recently, I’ve been working on a project trying to determine brain regions critical for language by studying stroke patients.”
