Taurus UT Austin

TAURUS (Texas Astronomy: Undergraduate Research experience for Underrepresented Students). Austin summer program committed to supporting URM students.

[Taurus UT Austin @TAURUSutaustin]

Reminder: due this Friday!

[Astronomy on Tap ATX @AoTATX]

Former @TAURUSutaustin student, Pa Chia Thao, published her first paper on the transit of planets around young stars!

#AoTATX62

[Texas Astronomy @UTAstronomy]

Welcome to this summer’s @TAURUSutaustin and NSF REU students! We look forward to having you in the Astronomy department this summer! 🌟

[Taurus UT Austin @TAURUSutaustin]

Congratulations Aldo and Maryam, from the TAURUS family!!

[Taurus UT Austin @TAURUSutaustin]

Hey Twitter -- Feb. 15th is just around the corner! If you are an undergrad from a historically under-represented group, please consider applying to our summer program at UT Austin! No reference letters needed, just a quick application!
https://t.co/5XhNEeymDC

[Taurus UT Austin @TAURUSutaustin]

Hello everyone! Applications for this year's TAURUS program are now open and are due Feb. 15. Please encourage any udergrads you know to look into our awesome program! Hook 'em! 🤘🏼https://t.co/5XhNEegLM4

[Alex Riley @astroriley]

Aldo Sepulveda used a Bayesian method to obtain a dynamical mass constraint of HR 8799, based on orbits of its FOUR imaged planets (also through @TAURUSutaustin -- my photo didn't save though 😔)

[Alex Riley @astroriley]

Jordyn Mascareñas-Wells spent her summer in the @TAURUSutaustin program using Gaia data to find young stars in the Taurus star-forming region

[Cynthia Froning @cfroning]

Final presentations for our @TAURUSutaustin scholars—exciting!

[Taurus UT Austin @TAURUSutaustin]

Today our TAURUS scholars are presenting all of their hard work and amazing accomplishments over the summer! We had a great time getting to know Analis, Jordyn, Gerlinder, Oscar, Gabby, and Steve, and we hope they had a blast too!

[astrobites @astrobites]

REU students with upcoming end-of-the-summer presentations! Check out: Speak your science -- How to give a better conference talk
https://t.co/SkOzHIbHdS

[Dr. Sinclaire Manning @smanning206]

We’ve made it to the final investigation of our @IseeUcsc PDP activity! The @TAURUSutaustin scholars and UT undergrads are hard at work coming up with their own exoplanet surveys! Facilitator @smfactor0 waves hello!

[Dr. Raquel A. Martinez @r_a_martinez14]

@smanning206 and @smfactor0 leading the next round of investigations after lunch. @IseeUcsc @TAURUSutaustin

[Dr. Raquel A. Martinez @r_a_martinez14]

It’s Inquiry Day at UT with the TAURUS scholars and summer undergraduates researchers! Time to decide which exoplanet detection method to investigate first. @IseeUcsc @TAURUSutaustin

[Taurus UT Austin @TAURUSutaustin]

Welcome welcome to our six new TAURUS scholars! This week they will be getting to know their mentors and become familiar with research and programming in our first round of seminars. We can’t wait to see what our students accomplish this summer!

[Taurus UT Austin @TAURUSutaustin]

We will soon be welcoming our 2018 TAURUS scholars - in fact, this coming Monday! Stay tuned for lots of exciting updates!

[NaturalSciences @ UT @TexasScience]

Senior spotlight: @UTAstronomy's Elizabeth Gutierrez won an Aspire award for research excellence. Study areas include protoplanetary disk formation, stellar twin identification & Milky Way star-forming regions.

Learn what else she's done at https://t.co/asScAloVAP
#UT18 #CNSGrad

[Taurus UT Austin @TAURUSutaustin]

Reminder!! TAURUS applications open until 2/15! Please encourage your students to apply! https://t.co/fDW85Ou02y

[Taurus UT Austin @TAURUSutaustin]

Applications for TAURUS 2018 are now open! https://t.co/fDW85Ou02y Please spread the word!