Resources for Student Researchers
NOTE: Prof. Burgasser will be taking on a limited number of research students in Spring and Summer 2024. If you are an undergraduate interested in research, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/aM5Fgc8W7BcTuyNy6
Recent Undergraduate Student Research
Cool Star Lab undergraduate Tiffany Liou was awarded a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award at the AAS 243 Winter Meeting in New Orleans, LA. Tiffany earned her Chambliss from her presentation "Rest-UV Properties of MUSE DR2 Galaxies". Congratulations Tiffany! [read more at AAS...]
CSL undergraduate researchers earned top honors as recipients of the UCSD School of Physical Sciences Dean's Undergraduate Excellence Awards: Malina Desai, Juan Diego Draxl Giannoni, Natalie Lam, and Deliliah Jacobsen were among 34 recipients selected from over 4,000 physical science majors. Congratulations to our outstanding undergraduates!
The Cool Star Lab Machine Learning group recently published a Research Note demonstrating spectral binary identification with a random forest classifier. The paper was led by undergraduate researcher Malina Desai. (read the paper at RNAAS)
Research Expectations and Principles of Community
There are some basic expectations we have for all Cool Star Lab research students, no matter what level of time commitment, to ensure that you have the time and resources to succeed in your research and learning. In addition, there are things you should expect of your mentors in this research program.
Expectations for research mentees
As a research mentee in the UCSD Cool Star Lab, I expect to…
Commit to participating fully in the research activities with my best effort, including completing reading & training assignments, attending group/team meetings and workshops, conducting my research work, and preparing reports/presentations.
Commit to and schedule my time for these research activities commensurate with my role (e.g., as a paid summer research fellow or as a volunteer)
Attend group/team meetings and office hours prepared with questions or research updates
Help my peers, and ask for & receive help from my peers
Communicate with the program mentors promptly if there are any issues are barriers preventing my participation in research
Expectations for research mentors
As a research mentor in the Cool Star Lab summer, I expect to…
Provide sufficient scientific and research tools training to the best of my ability.
Provide research resources, including access to computing resources, software, trainings, and research papers
Communicate clearly any research expectations, assignments, and deadlines, and ensure these are expectations are appropriate and fair
Be available on a regularly scheduled basis to answer questions and provide individual help
Provide mentees clear, honest, and constructive feedback on their research work, and help mentees grow and improve
Provide advice and support for mentees' academic and professional development
Be patient, understanding, and supportive of mentees' learning, making this the primary goal of research activities
Expectations for everyone: Principles of Community
All members of the UCSD Cool Star Lab are expected to adhere to our principles of community to ensure equitable access and opportunity, and ethical practice, in our teaching, learning, and research activities:
We place honesty and integrity in our teaching, learning, research and mentorship at the highest level.
We recognize the intrinsic value of diversity and excellence in all our endeavors.
We affirm the dignity of all individuals and strive to uphold a just community in which discrimination and hate are never tolerated.
We respect the differences and commonalities that bring us together, and expect civility and respect in our personal interactions.
We believe that active participation with our local and global communities are central to our educational and research mission.
We embrace open and equitable access to opportunities for learning and development as our obligation and goal.
