Keep up with all the ways in which the Mount Holyoke community is pushing the limits of human knowledge, building lasting bonds and leading the way forward — on campus and around the world.
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Stacy Kim models dwarf galaxies to learn more about dark matter, the mysterious celestial substance that “literally holds us all together.”
“My politics professors were huge points of support for me and helped me determine what I wanted to do in the space policy field. Being able to present my work to people working in the industry as an underclassman was awesome.”
Darby Dyar, Mount Holyoke College Kennedy-Schelkunoff Professor of Astronomy, was part of a team that solved a nearly century-old mystery of “Blood Falls” in Antarctica.
“Through the classes I’ve taken, I have a much better sense of what I’m interested in and what I want to do with the future. The professors ... are really there to make sure that you understand all of this material.”
Processing astronomical images is how raw images taken by telescopes becomes useful information for astronomers
I have always loved the sky and I am curious about how things work in space and determining solutions for things we do not yet know or understand in our universe.
Raman Spectroscopy is just the beginning.
