Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Stories

Graduate Student

Mechella Yezernitskaya

Making a Difference

"One of the questions I ask in my dissertation is, what does it mean to be physically far but psychologically close to a conflict? I find myself in the role of someone who is experiencing this war from afar yet incredibly close to my loved ones."

Graduate Student

Olivia McAuley

Physics Ph.D. Student

"I study the orbital changes of the stars by looking at the action angles. I am currently in the process of adding a cluster to my simulation that is located at this Lagrange point and putting the cluster in different environments to see what happens to the orbits of these stars."