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Mentoring Young Astronomers

June 11, 2013

Communications Staff

Last month, Federighi Professor of Physics and Astronomy Dan Stinebring traveled to the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia with three Oberlin students. Next week, the group heads to Krabi, Thailand, for the annual meeting of the International Pulsar Timing Array, where they will meet and interact with more than 100 researchers and students from around the globe.

Photo Gallery

Physics students at Green Bank Telescope

Five people in hard hats pose for a photo in front of a large structure — Dan Stinebring, Elizabeth Garbee ’14, Ben Izmirli ’16, Jason Rosenblum ’16, and Tim Dolch, a postdoctoral researcher at Oberlin, in the cable-access area of the super sensitive Green Bank Telescope (https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/gbt/).
Photo credit: Courtesy of Dan Stinebring

A person in a hard hat poses for a photo in front of rolling hills — Rising sophomore Jason Rosenblum ’16 at the Green Bank Telescope (http://dailynightly.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/15/18277297-no-cellphone-no-wi-fi-living-in-americas-quietest-place?lite), with the West Virginia mountains in the background.
Photo credit: Courtesy of Dan Stinebring

Three people in hard hats pose for a photo — Elizabeth Garbee ’14, Ben Izmirli ’16, and Jason Rosenblum ’16 on the Green Bank Telescope’s access deck 1.
Photo credit: Courtesy of Dan Stinebring

A person in a hard hat crouches under a large structure — Rising sophomore Ben Izmirli under the Green Bank Telescope’s (https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/gbt/Development/Development%20Program) main counterweight.
Photo credit: Courtesy of Dan Stinebring

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