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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- After 2000
- 1990-1999
- 1970-1989
- Before 1970
Doctorate
- 1990: Tian-Xing Liu (The Luminosity Scale of RR Lyrae Stars Using the Baade-Wesselink Method)
- 1992: Xiaohui Hui ( The Planetary Nebula System and the Dynamics of the Galaxy)
- 1993: Randy Phelps ( The Planetary Nebula System and the Dynamics of the Galaxy Centaurus A)
- 1993: João Yun (A Characterization of Young Stellar Objects in Bok Globules: Infrared Imaging, Spectral Energy Distributions, and Molecu)
- 1993: Mark Moldwin (The Formation, Structure, and Evolution of Plasmoids)
- 1993: Thomas Kuchar (The Boston University - Arecibo Galactic HI Survey: The Galaxy at 4 Arcminute Resolution)
- 1994: Peter Sultan (Chemical Release Experiments to Induce F Region Ionospheric Plasma Irregularities at the Magnetic Equator)
- 1994: Brian Flynn (On the Structure and Origin of Neutral Sodium Remote from Jupiter)
- 1994: Richard Doe (The Creation Of Electron Density Cavities in the Earth's Polar Ionosphere)
- 1994: Steven Bloom (Multiwaveband Observations of Quasars)
- 1995: Yun Zhang (Time Variable Extragalactic Radio Sources with Peaked Spectra)
- 1995: Xiaoqing Pi (Dynamical Effects of Substorms in the Middle and Lower Latitude Ionosphere)
- 1995: Xian He (Hydrogen Escape from the Earth's Atmosphere)
- 1995: Dana Balser ( The Abundance of 3He in the Milky Way Galaxy)
- 1996: Brian Kane (The Structures, Kinematics, and Magnetic Natures of Starless Bok Globules)
- 1996: Kent Montgomery (Old Stellar Systems: A Study in Stellar and Galactic Evolution)
- 1997: Redgie Lancaster (Upper Atmospheric Oxygen Density Determined from Combined Optical and Incoherent Scatter Radar Measurements)
- 1997: Timothy Paglione (The Properties of the Dense Gas in the Nuclei of Spiral Galaxies)
- 1997: Eftyhia Zesta (Traveling Convection Vorticles at Cusp Latitudes Observed by the Magnetometer Array for Cusp & Cleft Studies)
- 1998: Kathleen Kraemer (The Effects of Massive Star Formation on the Interstellar Medium: Photodissociated and Molecular Gas in NGC 6334)
- 1998: Anders Jørgensen ( Global Dynamics of the Hot Plasma in the Inner Magnetosphere: Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) and In-situ Measurements)
- 1998: John Noto (The Velocity Distributions of Hydrogen and Helium in the Earth's Exosphere)
- 1998: Sheela Shodhan-Shah (Properties of the Plasma Mantle in the Earth)
- 1999: Markos Georganopoulos (Models of Blazars)
- 1999: James Ingalls (Carbon Gas in High Galactic Latitude Molecular Clouds)
- 1999: Matthew Lister (The Influence of Special Relativistic Effects on the Observed Properties of Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei)
Masters
- 1990: Mark Moldwin
- 1990: Brian Kane
- 1991: Markos Georganopoulos
- 1993: George Fishman
- 1993: Brian Flynn
- 1994: Timothy Niiler
- 1994: Robert Yantosca
- 1994: Kathleen Kraemer
- 1994: Timothy Paglione
- 1995: Yan Bétremieux
- 1995: Redgie Lancaster
- 1996: Adam Contos
- 1996: Maureen Savage
- 1996: Keith Schneider
- 1996: Melissa Dryer-Weber
- 1997: Shantanu Desai
- 1997: Alberto Bolatto
- 1997: Gina Gugliotti
- 1998: Charles Paxson (Support for a Precessing Accretion Disk in X-ray Binary System Cygnus X-2)
- 1998: Candace Wright
- 1999: Andrew Byrne
- 1999: Nathan Smith
- 1999: Valerie Coffey (A Statistical Analysis of HI Self-absorption Features in the First Quadrant of the Milky Way)
- 1999: Sherri Stephan
- 1999: Andrew Stephan
B.S.
- 1999: David Donovan (Time Dependent Accretion in High Mass Protostars)
B.A.
- 1990: Tomas Skucas
- 1990: Lawrence Jacquette
- 1990: Gregory Michaels
- 1990: Peter Olenik
- 1990: Gerald Samrout
- 1990: Neil Schnepf
- 1990: Frank Welte
- 1991: Tereasa Ciardi
- 1991: Alan Lohof
- 1991: David Ciardi
- 1991: Gary Smith
- 1991: James Ingalls
- 1991: Stephanie Alex
- 1992: Celeste Sleeper
- 1992: Paul Keiter
- 1992: Michael Golub
- 1992: Christopher Dorney
- 1992: James Howard
- 1992: Alexander Campbell
- 1992: Debra Buczkowski
- 1992: Bill Mackiewicz
- 1993: Alan Stone
- 1993: Daniel Welty
- 1993: Kathleen Keefe
- 1993: Karinn Eckhardt
- 1993: Steven Buczkowski
- 1993: Kevin Williams
- 1994: Michael Berkovitch
- 1994: Peter Danczkay
- 1994: Jo Anne Domingo
- 1994: Michael Dorin
- 1994: Jonathan Fitch
- 1994: Ronak Shah
- 1994: Daniel Michael
- 1995: Derek Cosentino
- 1995: Joshua Emery
- 1995: Daniel Marrier
- 1995: Asako Masuya
- 1995: Ronald McNabb
- 1995: John Norwell
- 1995: Shefali Ujla
- 1995: Anna Clark
- 1996: Genene Fisher
- 1996: Gina Gugliotti
- 1996: Kevin Henry
- 1996: Noriko Horiuchi
- 1996: Matthew Kowalewski
- 1996: Janine Lyn
- 1996: Dimple Patel
- 1996: Nicole Spaun
- 1996: Karen Tsetsenekos
- 1996: John Vaillancourt
- 1996: David Goldberg
- 1996: Carolyn van der Bogert
- 1996: Narbey Derbekyan
- 1996: Rene Allard
- 1996: Valerie Gsell
- 1996: Andrew Young
- 1997: David Sidewand
- 1997: Michael Cushing
- 1997: Scott Thompson
- 1997: Fernando Estrella
- 1998: Kathryn Fishbaugh
- 1998: Yujiro Kohri
- 1998: Jonathan Jakischa
- 1998: Nathan Kraemer
- 1998: Christopher Sullivan
- 1998: Christopher Wargo
- 1998: Dawn Peterson
- 1998: Stephen Oetting
- 1998: Jaime Weida
- 1998: Katrien Steenbrugge
- 1999: Jason Cook (Adriaan Van Maanen's Influence on the Island Universe Theory)
- 1999: Jason Wright (Probing the Magnetic Field of Bok Globule: B335)
- 1999: Corey Ziemniak
- 1999: Eric Damboise
- 1999: Barbara Finkemeyer
- 1999: Margaret Hart
- 1999: Kaveh Mojtabi
- 1999: Marilia Samara
- 1999: Francesca Simon
- 1999: Bryan Hilbert
- 1999: Vishal Goklani
- 1999: Steven Chan
