This is some big news that I’ve been looking forward to posting for a while. I recently found out that I’ve been accepted into the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory’s predoctoral program at Harvard University! It’s now official - I’ll be spending the upcoming academic year in Cambridge, MA as a predoctoral student at Harvard, working on my thesis with Dr. Robert Kirshner. I’ll still be a full-time student at the Institute for Astronomy, and am currently planning on only one year of predoctoral work at Harvard so that I can finish up my Ph.D. thesis back in Hawaii.

For now, however, I’m getting ready to head back out to the Great Frozen North for a year (brrr), along with getting everything squared away for Europe. It’s shaping up to be a pretty busy summer, but I’m looking forward to the travel, and to being back on the mainland for a year of interesting research!

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