As a first-year student at NAU, Megan Gialluca walked into astronomy professor Ty Robinson’s office, introduced herself and told him she was interested in doing research with him.
Four years later, she’s leaving NAU as a Goldwater Scholar and with three years of funding for a Ph.D. in hand as a recipient of the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award.
Gialluca graduated in April with a degree in astronomy and has spent her NAU career focused on research and science education, including winning grants to run her own research projects, collaborating with a Harvard researcher to study dark matter and working at Lowell Observatory—an opportunity that helped get the New Hampshire student to NAU four years ago.
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