That’s a Wrap for Summer 2023!

The Summer 2023 research program in the Follette lab has officially come to an end with the completion of two lab traditions 1) The lab BBQ at my house and 2) the annual summer poster session.

Summer 2023 Follette Labbers. Left to Right: Jada Louison, Courtney Reed, Connor Robinson, A’Cora Hickson, Adrian Friedman, me, Alex Del Franco, Josie Carillo, Kinsey Cronin, Bethany Martin, Cat Sarosi, Amy Zheng. Seated left to right: Giselle Hoermann, Jess Laboissiere. Not pictured: Marius Cortorobai, Zoe Roumelitos

What a great group of scholars and humans we had in the lab this year! Many will be continuing with their projects into the fall, and we are very proud of all of the work that they did! What did they do, you ask?

  • A’Cora Hickson ‘25 and Marius Cotorobai ‘25 (not pictured) upgraded the pipeline and SQL database for our QuaRCS educational research study

  • Amy Zhang ‘25 and Bethany Martin ‘24 learned the ins and outs of the python spectroscopy software PypeIt and processed a whole bunch of Keck data of accreting brown dwarfs.

  • Josie Carillo ‘26, Courtney Reed ‘24, and Zoe Roumelitos (Smith ‘24), with the help of postbac Cat Sarosi (‘23), made a range of improvements to our lab’s multiwavelength database of resolved planet-forming disk images.

  • Kinsey Cronin ‘25, Jess Laboissiere (UMass ‘24), and Giselle Hoermann (UMass ‘24) learned the ins-and-outs of high contrast imaging algorithms and figured out how to apply some of them to microscopy images of seafloor rock samples.

  • Alex Del Franco ‘24 and Adrian Friedman ‘24 got head starts on their senior theses, and Jada Louison (UMass graduate student) chugged along on her graduate Initial Research Project (IRP).

Summer 2023 Follette lab undergraduate researchers at the annual Amherst College summer research poster session. Left to right: Courtney Reed, Amy Zheng, Josie Carillo, Bethany Martin, A’Cora Hickson, Alex Del Franco, Jess Laboissiere, Giselle Hoermann,

Kate Follette