Mentoring

John completed a 10-week undergraduate summer research internship advised by me at Michigan State University in 2025 as a rising junior. He presented his project, “Simulating Hydrogen-Triggered X-ray Bursts on Slowly Accreting Neutron Stars,” as his first research poster at the Mid-Michigan Symposium. He learned how to use and run MESA on MSU's high-performance computing center to simulate X-ray bursts. It was also his first research experience, which he said he really enjoyed even though research is a lot different in practice than he expected!