The student will:

• Explore the universe through the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, one of the most significant alltime astronomy projects.
• Get a firm grounding in the sciences through courses in physics, mathematics, computer science, chemistry, geology, astronomy, and astrophysics.
• Jump into research by working with faculty and graduate students on topics like star cluster and galaxy evolution, infrared and radio astronomy, and stellar and interstellar gas chemistry and dynamics, with data collected from Sloan, the Green Bank Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, WHAM telescope in Chile, and the McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains of west Texas.