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Radio Physics: Dr. Grace Telford Discusses Nearby Galaxies

Patty Fox

Danie Way, a rising senior at Glenwood Springs High School interviews Dr. Grace Telford, a postdoctoral researcher at Rutgers University studying the histories of star formation and heavy element, or metal, enrichment in nearby galaxies.

Dr. Telford earned her Ph.D in astronomy with a focus on data science methods from the University of Washington in 2019. Before that, she completed bachelor's degrees in astrophysics and bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Grace's thesis work focused on constraining past gas flows into and out of galaxies using their present-day metal content. Her current projects include testing the impact of recent starburst events in low-mass galaxies on their dark matter distributions and measuring the properties of the most metal-poor massive stars in the nearby universe.

  Radio Physics is for everyone! You don't have to be a scientist or even an aficionado to be fascinated by the questions and answers that you'll hear between 4:30 and 5:00 on the fourth Tuesday of every month. Radio Physics is a new collaboration with top high school physics students from Aspen to Rifle, the Aspen Center for Physics, and KDNK Community Radio in Carbondale. Students interview one of the more than 1,000 physicists who visit the Aspen Center for Physics every year. You'll want to know the answer to the questions that they ask. Tune in!

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