ASTR 399 / 499
Undergraduate research
Independent study for credit, working with real JWST, SOFIA and ALMA data. Students learn Python, statistical analysis, and how to write up a result. Recent projects: NGC 4736 and the Horsehead Nebula.
Courses I teach in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of South Carolina, listed by semester. Undergraduate research credits are arranged individually — email me if you want to take one.
Office hours. Jones 603, Wednesdays by appointment — please email ahead of time at elopezrodriguez@sc.edu.
Official meeting times and rooms are always whatever the USC Schedule of Classes says.
Beyond the classroom
Independent study for credit, working with real JWST, SOFIA and ALMA data. Students learn Python, statistical analysis, and how to write up a result. Recent projects: NGC 4736 and the Horsehead Nebula.
The whole lab — postdocs through high school interns — presents progress, debugs analysis together, and works through the literature.
A year-long internship for local high school students analyzing NASA telescope data, building Python skills, and preparing university applications.