Our Volunteers
Interested in working with us? Fill out this form or email siriusborganization [at] gmail.com.
None of this would be possible without our partners/volunteers. For a list of people who have given their time in the past (broken out by primary involvement), see below. To learn more about a particular program we’ve run, use the email above or reach out to the organizer(s) directly.
2024 VERGE
Funded by the International Astronomical Union North American Regional Office of Astronomy for Development Women and Girls in Astronomy Program and the Heising-Simons Foundation.
Organizers
- Ava Polzin
- Nathalie Jones (in absentia)
Presentations
- Prof. Hsiao-Wen Chen (galaxies)
- Dr. Lindsay DeMarchi (dark & quiet sky conservation)
- Prof. Malena Rice (exoplanets)
- Dr. Candice Stauffer (stars & stellar transients)
- Paanaakala Tanaka (traditional wayfinding, Native Hawaiian astronomy)
- Dr. Luna Zagorac (dark matter and cosmology)
2023 SIRIUS B Booklet
Printing of physical books for 2024 VERGE participants funded by the IAU NA-ROAD and the Heising-Simons Foundation.
Organizer
Booklet Authors and Contributors
- Yasmeen Asali (Gravitational Waves and AI/Machine Learning)
- Prof. Katie Auchettl (advice for students)
- Sanah Bhimani (Experimental CMB Cosmology)
- Madison Brady (Exoplanets)
- Prof. Katie Breivik (advice for students)
- Prof. Hsiao-Wen Chen (advice for students)
- Mandy Chen (Galaxies’ Gaseous Outskirts)
- Prof. Deanne Coppejans (advice for students)
- Dr. Lindsay DeMarchi (Dark and Quiet Sky Conservation)
- Michelle Gurevich (Numerical Relativity and Gravitational Waves)
- Dr. Sthabile Kolwa (advice for students)
- Dr. Emily Lichko (Cosmic Rays)
- Emma Louden (Space Policy and Aerospace/Astronautics)
- Julie Malewicz (art; Black Holes)
- Prof. Raf Margutti (advice for students)
- Prof. Priya Natarajan (advice for students)
- Prof. Erica Nelson (advice for students)
- Samantha Pagan (Astroparticle Physics)
- Dr. Kim Page (advice for students)
- Prof. Malena Rice (Exoplanets’ Orbital Architecture)
- Zili Shen (Stellar Streams/Star Clusters and Dark Matter in Galaxies)
- Emily Simon (Astrophysical Plasmas)
- Dr. Candice Stauffer (Stellar Astrophysics)
- Prof. Silvia Toonen (advice for students)
- Prof. Kate Whitaker (advice for students)
- Dr. Luna Zagorac (Theoretical Cosmology)
- Prof. Irina Zhuravleva (advice for students)
2019 Stellar STEM Weekend
Funded by the Northwestern Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and the Center for Native American & Indigenous Research.
Organizer
Facilitators/Chaperones
- Katie Barnhart
- Agnes Engstrom
- Dr. Aprajita Hajela
- Julie Malewicz
- Dr. Candice Stauffer
- Pam Villalovoz
Citizen Science Workshop
- Prof. Christopher Berry
- Dr. Charee Peters
Cultural Exchange Dinner
- Prof. Deborah Brown (presenter)
- Prof. Anupam Garg
- Jasmine Gurneau
- Josemanuel Hernandez
- Jen Michals
- Pamala Silas (presenter)
- Dr. Tom Voitas
Science Presentations
- Prof. Megan Bang (talk)
- Prof. Aaron Geller (talk and Adler Planetarium Space Visualization Lab tour)
- Prof. Zosia Krusberg (talk)
- Prof. Raf Margutti (talk)
- Prof. Art Schmidt (“Magic of Physics” show)
2018 Stellar STEM Weekend
Funded by the Northwestern Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion.
Organizer
Facilitators/Chaperones
- Katie Barnhart
- Dr. Eve Chase
- Jasmine Gurneau
- Dr. Aprajita Hajela
- Dr. Renée Manzagol-Harwood
- Pam Villalovoz
Citizen Science Workshop
Cultural Exchange Dinner
- Prof. Pulak Dutta
- Prof. Wen-fai Fong (presenter)
- Dr. Andrea Isgrò
- Dr. Patrick Krantz
- Prof. Patty Loew (presenter)
- Chloe Lohmeyer
- Dr. Ingrid Stolt
Science Presentations
- Prof. Eric Dahl (talk and lab tour)
- Prof. Claude-André Faucher-Giguère (talk)
- Prof. Aaron Geller (talk and Adler Planetarium Space Visualization Lab tour)
- Prof. Zosia Krusberg (talk)
- Prof. Raf Margutti (talk)
- Prof. Art Schmidt (“Magic of Physics” show)
