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This site is meant to serve as an interactive resume, complete with writing samples and research interests.  Navigate using the links below.  If you're looking for my personal blog (The Zblog), click here.

Writing and Research Samples

 Astrophysics Research
JP1.pdf
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My first junior paper from Fall 2006: "Identifying Pre Main Sequence Stars Using SDSS Spectroscopy." Advisor: Gill Knapp.  497k v. 3 Jan 4, 2010 6:14 PM Zoe Buck
JP2.pdf
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My second junior paper from Spring 2007: "Accurately Determining Galaxy Cluster Parameters Using a Matched Filter Method." Advisor: David Spergel.   6920k v. 4 Jan 4, 2010 6:14 PM Zoe Buck
thesis.pdf
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My 2007-2008 undergraduate thesis: "The Real Space Clustering of Galaxies Around Low-z Quasars in the SDSS Stripe 82." Advisor: Michael Strauss.  1657k v. 3 Jan 4, 2010 5:57 PM Zoe Buck
 Education
zbuck_261finalpaper.doc
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A paper I wrote for a cognition course taught by Dr. Judit Moschkovich about the metaphor of "scaffolding" through different educational lenses.  79k v. 2 Jan 26, 2010 10:44 AM Zoe Buck
 Other Writing
CHV310veggie.doc
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An essay against eating meat that I wrote for Peter Singer's Princeton course "Practical Ethics" when I first became a vegetarian in 2005.   39k v. 3 Jan 4, 2010 6:15 PM Zoe Buck
Cossacks.pdf
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An undergraduate research paper about Cossacks for a history course about nationalism that I particularly enjoyed writing.  139k v. 2 Jan 4, 2010 6:33 PM Zoe Buck
genesis_farm3.doc
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"On Genesis Farm," a profile of a bio-dynamic farm in upstate New Jersey that is run by a group of nuns involved in the faith-based environmentalism movement. Written for a 2008 journalism course at Princeton taught by columnist Peter Applebome of the New York Times.   33k v. 5 Jan 4, 2010 6:05 PM Zoe Buck
 Science Writing
cassidy_big_gray2.pdf
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Page 2 of "Cassidy."  1115k v. 2 Jan 4, 2010 5:56 PM Zoe Buck
cassidy_big_gray.pdf
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Page 1 of "Cassidy," a News & Observer article from 2008 describing a breakthrough canine prosthetic leg surgery. Appeared on the front page.  886k v. 2 Jan 4, 2010 5:56 PM Zoe Buck
Drake_sketch.doc
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"The Most Patient Astronomer in the World," a short profile of SETI co-founder Frank Drake drawn from my experiences working with him doing optical SETI at Lick Observatory in 2006 and 2007.  25k v. 2 Jan 4, 2010 5:56 PM Zoe Buck
N&O archives
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A link to more articles available in the N&O archives. This site lists blurbs only, it's $2.50 for the whole article. I didn't write the obits or anything after them, and the article about the kids on I-80 I only did Spanish interviews and translations for.   Jan 4, 2010 5:57 PM Zoe Buck
robots_big_gray.pdf
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A News & Observer article from 2008 describing tiny robots being developed at Duke University. Appeared on the front page and was accompanied by a half page color graphic and diagram.  1146k v. 2 Jan 4, 2010 5:56 PM Zoe Buck
zebras.doc
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"Lessons in Black and White," a story I wrote for an undergraduate science journalism course at Princeton, taught by author Michael Lemonick of Time magazine.  29k v. 2 Jan 4, 2010 5:56 PM Zoe Buck