AST 376 "Practical Introduction to Research": this team of scientist/engineer educators designed and taught an inquiry lab activity through ISEE’s Professional Development Program

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Venue: AST 376 "Practical Introduction to Research", University of Texas, Austin

Team members: 

Raquel Martinez (Design Team Lead): Graduate Student, Astronomy, UT Austin

Aaron Rizzuto: Postdoc, Astronomy, UT Austin

Fabíola Campos: Postdoc, astronomy researcher in Austin TX

Audience: 14 undergraduates

Activity nameUsing Blackbody Radiation to Answer Science Questions about Star-Forming Regions

Learning goalsLearners will use observations of stars to model and interpret the spectral energy distributions of individual stars in order to infer their temperature and whether they host a circumstellar disk. 

Sponsor: NSF AST#1743117 & Heising-Simons Foundation postdoc fellowship

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