Summer undergraduate research at Yerkes Observatory
During the summer of 2023, UNC Asheville students Ava Tomkins, Phoebe Gittis, and Josh Ward completed undergraduate research at the birthplace of modern astrophysics: Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, home to the largest refracting telescope in the world and about 180,000 archival photographic glass plates taken by astronomers around the turn of the 20th century.
Read more about their experience in the latest UNC Asheville Stories.