Undergraduate and graduate students continue to make contributions to our research effort in astrophysics.

Current Astrophysics Research Assistants.

The MSU gamma-ray burst group in 2008 is energized by the talents and enthusiasm of its students. Shane Creel, Jeff Durst, and Rob Riehle are working on their graduate degrees analyzing GRB time profiles. E. Kenny Wunder is an undergraduate researcher and is just getting started.

Dan Logue finished his MS thesis entitled: A Single Continuous Function as a Model For Fast Rise Exponential Decay Gamma Ray Bursts.

Past Graduate Students:

Ted Dunsford finished his MS in remote sensing in Dec. 2001.
His thesis title is The Fully Automated Correction of Maps Using Digital Photographs from the IKONOS Satellite.

Yuan Yan finished his PhD in May, 2000. His dissertation title is 
Scaling in Long Duration Gamma-Ray Burst Time Profiles.
After leaving MSU, Yan spent a sabbatical with the AMANDA group - part of the time at the Antarctic observing station.

Jing Hao finished her M.S in May, 2000. Her thesis title is
An Analysis of Gamma-Ray Burst Time Profiles: The Fast Rise Exponential Decay

Past Undergraduate Students:

It is very important that undergraduates get involved in research early in their careers. It is important that they understand the cycle of: data collection, analysis, write up, and presentation. Below is a list of some of the MSU undergraduates who have gone through this process by joining our astrophysics group

Brad Barlow, graduated in May, 2006 and is pursuing his Ph.D at UNC Chapel Hill. He spent 2 months during the summer of 2004 with Jochen Greiner's GRB team at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, near Munich.

Sarah Nagel, Application of the GINI-Simpson statistic to spikes in GRB time profiles.

Robert Fritzius, Mapping Gamma Ray Bursters.

Harold Dunsford, Gamma-Ray Bursts and Self Organized Criticality.

Virginia Hamilton, The Evolution of Fractal Dimension in Gamma-Ray Burst Time Profiles.

Mike Harris and Jay Montgomery, Models of Gamma Ray Bursters.

Dwayne McCollum, How to Fake A Gamma-Ray Burst.

Ella Kuhn, Asymmetry in GRB Time Profiles. (MSMS High-school student)

Trent Moulder, COSMIC CHAOS: A Fractal Analysis of Gamma-Ray Bursts.

Payne Seal, What is the Length of the Coastline of Mississippi?

Samantha Shoemake, Study of Asymmetry in Gamma-Ray Burst Time Profiles.

Cynthia Spencer, The Effect of Ionospheric Perturbations on VLF Radio Transmissions.

Joe M. Turner and Donna Henderson, The Burst And Transient Source Experiment: An Overview.

John Weaver, Trends in Fast Rise Exponential Decay "FREDs" in Gamma-Ray Bursts.

Seth Whitehead, The Determination of Gamma-Ray Burst Time Profile Endpoints.

Alan Windham, Randomness in the Arrival Times of Gamma-Ray Burst Photons.