Astronomy Department Alumni
The Department of Astronomy boasts an impressive cadre of alumni. BU Astronomy Alumni now exceed 200, with over 160 of those having earned undergraduate degrees, and over 60 having received Master's and PhD degrees. The annual graduating class continues to increase slowly, reflecting the department's overall growth. From its modest and noteworthy beginnings, the department has expanded to its present sixteen full-time teaching faculty, conducting a broad and robust research program. As of 1999-2000, the BU Department of Astronomy had the largest undergraduate astronomy program in the US, offering concentrations in Astronomy, Astronomy and Physics, and Planetary and Space Sciences.
Links to lists of all BU Astronomy Alumni follow below - post 2000 graduates are linked on this page. The lists is sorted according to degree and year of degree. We hope that this list will be useful for alumni as a way to keep in touch with former classmates.
Below are alumni of Boston University's Department of Astronomy. Listed are department alumni as well as IAR, CSP and some Engineering students.
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Chronological listings: M.A. Awards, Ph.D. AwardsShow Dates
- After 2000
- 1990-1999
- 1970-1989
- Before 1970
Doctorate
- 2000: Yan Bétremieux (A New Look at the Jovian Atmosphere with a Raman Scattering Model)
- 2000: Congxian Jia
- 2000: Wei Zhang
- 2000: Karen Hirsch (Assessing Plasma Sheet Convection Models Using Off-Equatorial Plasma Sheet Observations)
- 2000: Mohamed Alothman (Modeling the Trapping Boundary of the Radiation Belts)
- 2001: Maohai Huang (Interstellar Carbon Under the Influence of HII Regions)
- 2001: Athanasios Boudouridis (Spatial and Temporal Aspects of High-latitude Particle Precipitation: a Remote Diagnostic of Magnetospheric Regions and Processes)
- 2001: Sherri Stephan (High Resolution Study of the Heliospheric Interface Region Using SCARI)
- 2001: Andrew Stephan (EUV/FUV Remote Sensing of the Low-Latitude Ionosphere and Thermosphere)
- 2001: Alberto Bolatto (The Interstellar Medium in Low Metallicity Environments)
- 2002: Candace Wright (Applications of Weak Gravitational Lensing: Constraining the Dark Matter in Clusters and Galaxies)
- 2003: David Murr (Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling on Meso- and Macro-Scales)
- 2003: Michael Kolpak (The Large Scale Galactic Structure of Star Formation Tracers)
- 2004: Sigrid Close (Theory and Analysis of Meteoroids Using High-Resolution Multi-Frequency Radar Data)
- 2004: Marc Kassis (Mid-Infrared Observations of Photodissociation Regions and Mirsi: A Mid-Infrared Spectrometer and Imager)
- 2004: Melissa Hayes-Gehrke (Ultra-High Precision Photometry of Open Clusters: A Study of Stellar Activity in Old Stars)
- 2004: Lara Waldrop (Probing the Structure, Composition,and Dynamics of the Jovian Plasma Sheet)
- 2004: Lars Dyrud (Simulations and Analysis of the Effects of Small Scale Turbulence on Macro Scale Plasma)
- 2006: Erin Bardar (Development and Analysis of Spectroscopic Learning Tools and the Light and Spectroscopy Concept Inventory for Introductory College Astronomy)
- 2006: Carlos Martinis (On the Dynamics and Instabilities of the Low Latitude Ionosphere)
- 2007: Emily Mercer (Probing the Milky Way at Mid-Infrared Wavelengths Using GLIMPSE)
- 2007: Timothy Guild (Comparative Studies of Multi-Scale Convective Transport Through the Earth's Plasma Sheet)
Masters
- 2000: Karla Walker
- 2000: Maohai Huang
- 2001: Jeremy Hallum
- 2001: Jyotirmoyee Bhattacharjya
- 2001: Kristen McQuinn
- 2001: Valeri Maher
- 2001: Carlos Martinis
- 2001: Andrei Sokolov
- 2001: Melissa Hayes-Gehrke
- 2002: Daniel Eldredge
- 2002: Stephen Stonebraker
- 2002: William Pakula
- 2002: Jessica Golub
- 2003: Erin Bardar
- 2003: Timothy Guild
- 2003: Lars Dyrud
- 2004: Richard Massaro
- 2004: Nikole Lewis (A Study of Far-Ultraviolet Extinction in the Upper Scorpius Cloud Using the SPINR Sounding Rocket Experiment)
- 2004: Chia-Lin Huang
- 2005: Pin Wu
- 2007: Nicholeen Viall
- 2007: Ed Chambers
- 2008: Aslihan Unsal
- 2008: Jason Adams
- 2008: Dipesh Bhattarai
- 2008: Christopher Claysmith
- 2008: Katherine Garcia
- 2008: Sarah McGregor
- 2008: Carol Carveth
B.S.
- 2000: Jennifer Simmerer (A Study of Magnetic Clouds and Their Associated Southward Magnetic Field Lines)
- 2004: Paul Jung
B.A.
- 2000: Sarah Schoolcraft
- 2000: Elaine Cabuang
- 2000: Lucas Boyle
- 2000: Kevin France (Detection of Sodium Absorption Lines Using a Self-Compensating All-Reflection Interferometer)
- 2000: Alicia Sanchez
- 2000: David Von Werne
- 2000: Lindsay Williams
- 2000: Kevin Wilton
- 2000: John Harris
- 2000: Sean Jones
- 2000: Justin Eskesen
- 2001: Anthony Bernacchi (Relative Proper Motion and Membership in the Old Open Cluster NGC 6791)
- 2001: Paul Bowen
- 2001: Danielle Khoury
- 2001: Joshua Glasel
- 2001: Lauren Horne
- 2001: Brian Merz
- 2001: Kathleen Morzinski
- 2001: Barry Muise
- 2001: Shari Bayliss
- 2001: Philitsa Kontogiannakopoulos
- 2001: Merissa Rudkin
- 2001: Silvia Van Brummelen
- 2002: Sarah Alves
- 2002: Jelena Tomic
- 2002: James Imonti
- 2002: John Hughes
- 2002: Robert Fuller II
- 2002: Ryan Duguay
- 2002: Ryan Chaves
- 2002: Aleksandra Fayer
- 2002: Daniel Alexanyan
- 2002: Jeremy Coombs
- 2002: John Wilson
- 2003: Stephanie LaMassa
- 2003: Licia Ray
- 2003: Cristin Rider
- 2003: Michael Specian
- 2003: Todd Veach
- 2003: Carl Anderson
- 2003: Licia Ray
- 2003: Kristin Cass
- 2003: Emily Flynn
- 2003: Ori Fox
- 2003: Kenneth Hills
- 2003: Lindsay McCaslin
- 2004: David Nero
- 2004: Michael Coleman
- 2004: Anthony Orlando
- 2004: Christopher Dong
- 2004: Phillip Rosenfield
- 2004: Andrew Serio
- 2004: Shannon McCurdy
- 2004: Carlos Zuluaga
- 2004: Lindsay Steedman
- 2004: Eric Twarog
- 2004: Kristopher Makrides
- 2004: Elizabeth Coelho
- 2004: Monica Bobra
- 2004: Natalya Bizunok
- 2004: Kelly Denney
- 2004: Jennifer Brown
- 2004: Lauren Sauer
- 2005: Erik Beiser
- 2005: Asher Pembroke
- 2005: Willis Titus
- 2005: Gustavo Reyes
- 2005: Jesse Perrell
- 2005: John Laliberte
- 2005: Daniel Salem
- 2005: Tiffany-Rose Sikorski
- 2005: Ida Kubiszewski
- 2005: Jason Eastman
- 2006: Nathan Meixler
- 2006: Elizabeth Taber
- 2006: Joshua Stadtlander
- 2006: Nicholas McConnell
- 2006: Jennifer Hanson
- 2006: James Kim
- 2006: Sheena Khanchandani
- 2006: Amanda Johnson
- 2006: Ann Douglas
- 2007: Mitchell Mickaliger
- 2007: Michael Gully-Santiago
- 2007: Clara Narvaez
- 2007: Robert Lombardi (Modeling and Comparisons of Photoionization Production in the Ionospheres of Venus, Mars, Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn)
- 2007: Nicholas Parker
- 2007: Julia Williams
- 2007: Donald Schmit (White Light Structures in a MHD Model of the Solar Corona)
- 2007: Ashley Tibbetts
- 2007: Joshua Shiode (Searching for Missing Galactic Planetary Nebulae: A Pilot [S III] Imaging Survey)
