Category: Kesseli

Boston Today – Science Club for Girls Takes STEM to the Next Generation

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Covered in the latest BU Today article, the BU Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (including IAR’s own Aurora Kesseli) met with third-grade girls to foster a love for science. ‘On this Thursday, eight-year-old Amaria Smith works next to Kesseli, an astronomy doctoral candidate, coloring multiple discs so she can see different shapes through her […]

The Daily Free Press – TRAPPIST-1 discovery holds promise for BU astronomers

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Philip Muirhead, Julie Skinner, Mark Veyette, and Aurora Kesseli spoke to The Daily Free Press this week about their research team focused on finding habitable planets with space telescopes. ‘“The problem with telescopes on the ground is that you get interrupted when you’re observing because the sun is coming up,” Muirhead said. “You can’t operate […]