{"id":4137,"date":"2021-05-28T09:57:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T16:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=4137"},"modified":"2021-06-11T10:03:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T17:03:39","slug":"dark-matter-amid-the-dark-skies-in-four-years-at-nau-research-takes-grad-to-the-ends-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/dark-matter-amid-the-dark-skies-in-four-years-at-nau-research-takes-grad-to-the-ends-of-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark matter amid the dark skies: In four years at NAU, research takes grad to the ends of the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Megan-Gialluca-768x710.jpg\" alt=\"Megan Gialluca with a telescope.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a first-year student at NAU, <strong>Megan Gialluca<\/strong> walked into astronomy professor Ty Robinson\u2019s office, introduced herself and told him she was interested in doing research with him.<\/p>\n<p>Four years later, she\u2019s leaving NAU as a Goldwater Scholar and with three years of funding for a Ph.D. in hand as a recipient of the NSF\u2019s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2014an opportunity that helped get the New Hampshire student to NAU four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>See the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/gialluca-grfp\/#.YMOVbueQyUl\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a first-year student at NAU, Megan Gialluca walked into astronomy professor Ty Robinson\u2019s office, introduced herself and told him she was interested in doing research with him. Four years later, she\u2019s leaving NAU as a Goldwater Scholar and with three years of funding for a Ph.D. in hand as a recipient of the NSF\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4143,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions\/4143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}