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Who is Dr. Julia Velkovska?
This individual received an NSF grant to build a Galaxy catalog for multimessenger hosts of supermassive black hole binaries
Who is Dr. Stephen Taylor?
This individual has a dog named Brita
Who is Aaron Hunsaker?
This post-doc recently joined the Vandy High Energy Nuclear Physics Group
Who is Dr. Benjamin Kimelman?
This individual won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Salvador Luria and Alfred Hershey for "their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses."
Who is Dr. Max Delbrück?
These individuals are the Director of Graduate Studies in Physics and Astronomy
Who are Dr. Alfredo Gurrola and Dr. Jon Bird?
These individuals won the Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy
Who are Dr. Jean-Francois Paquet and Dr. Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli?
This individual went to James Madison University for his undergraduate career
Who is Michael Padgett?
This post-doc is currently serving as a STEM Instructor for the Vanderbilt Frist Autism Center's Graduate NISE Seminar
Who is Dr. Sara Frederick?
These Vanderbilt physicists aided in the Manhatten Project to produce Nuclear Weapons in WWII
Who are Dr. Francis Slack, Dr. Ernest Jones, and Dr. Newton Underwood
This individual has a dog named 'Rocket'
Who is Don Pickert?
This individual was recently awarded an NSF grant to fund the Multi-Messenger Astronomy program
Who is Dr. Kelly Holley-Bockelmann?
This first year enjoys Jojo's Bizzare Adventures - nickname Mojo-jojo
Who is Joseph Sanders?
These individuals are certified Yoga Instructors
Who are Dr. Savanna Starko, Dr. Brenda Fabela Enriquez, and Morgan Williams (Staff TA)?
This Vanderbilt astronomer was well-known for his 1943 research paper “Nuclear Emission in Spiral Nebulae.” Hint: This class of galaxies is named _______ galaxies
Who is Dr. Carl Keenan Seyfert?
This individual makes clothing for dogs!
Who is Ashley Eayre-Brammer?
This individual taught physics to every person on the Vanderbilt Baseball team
Who is Dr. Joseph Hamilton? (Retired)
This individual owns a monitor lizard, tarantula, snakes, and even more critters
Who is Lauren Kasper?
This faculty is the founder and director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education
Who is Dr. John Wikswo?
This individual is noted for her development and implementation of the Multi-Configurational Hartree–Fock approach to atomic-structure calculations and its application to the description of atomic structure and spectra
Who is Dr. Charlotte Froese Fischer
This individual was in a band back in the days
Who is Donald Pickert?
This APS Fellow was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Scientist Prize for contributions to materials physics
Who is Dr. Richard Haglund?
This individual once had a booming career as an actor in his undergraduate days
Who is Nate Hermann?
This post-doc studies hydrodynamic theories and relativistic heavy ion physics
Who is Gabriel Soares Rocha?
This unofficial graduate student made essential contributions to Dyer Observatories first ever surveys of the night sky in 1883. He even has a star named after him!
Who is Honorary Dr. Edward Emerson Barnard?