Friday, October 26, 2018

TAURUS October Reunions!






We had some awesome, unexpected TAURUS reunions happening in Austin and San Antonio this October!  It started with Jordyn (2018), Oscar (2018), and Aldo's (2017) participation in the SURE program, a prospective graduate student recruiting event at UT Austin at the beginning of the month. SURE is a new program started in UT's College of Nature Science, and this year focused on the physical sciences.  Oscar and Aldo presented their work as talks, and Jordyn and Aldo presented a poster.  Aldo actually won the `best poster' award for the entire SURE program.  Congratulations Aldo, and well done everyone!  The trio headed over to Rice University the very next day for a similar graduate recruiting visit program, the Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium.



Just a week later, Oscar came back to UT to present his research from UTSA in the TAURS symposium, a Texas-wide organized symposium for undergraduate astronomy research.  His talk was stellar!  At the same time, another group of TAURUS alumni gathered at the SACNAS meeting in San Antonio, including Jennifer (2016), Isaiah (2016), Aldo (2017), and Jordyn (2018).  And there Aldo won yet another poster presenter award, woot! So happy to see the TAURUS community growing and supporting each other in their great research!

So excited to see some of y'all in January in Seattle for the AAS. :)