 The Impact on
Students
Making a name in astrophysics
Naomi McClure-Griffiths,
whose research was supported by a fellowship,
recently completed her Ph.D. in astronomy
and was named one of four newly minted
Ph.D.'s to have won the 2003 U of M Best
Dissertion award. Naomi had already been
making a name for herself in astrophysics.
As part of an international effort to
map the inner Milky Way, using the most
advanced radio telescopes, the NASA fellow
has personally discovered 17 huge gas
bubbles in our home galaxy.
"We're learning that the Milky Way is a lot like Swiss
cheese," she says of the bubbles, which are thousands
of light-years in diameter. Of the mapping project, McClure-Griffith's
advisor, U astronomy professor John Dickey, says, "Doing
a survey like this is like being the first person to sail
around the world. It's a voyage of discovery. And it helps
us learn more about how everything in the universe fits together."
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