Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
“I found it. That was my passion.”
We sat down for a chat with Ananya Gupta and Christa Louthan, two mentors in the Dwarf Stars stream of our Freshman Research Initiative. They reveal how they chose to become mentors, the challenges of their work, why they love what they do and more.
Ananya and freshman astronomy major Camden Adams are also featured in a story and longer video about student researchers who get to operate the McDonald Observatory’s amazing 107-inch telescope. They recently investigated whether a distant globular cluster could contain a black hole. Learn more at https://cns.utexas.edu/news/features/night-telescope.
Happy FRIday!
#HappyFRIday #TexasScience #Astrophysics #WhiteDwarf #WomenInSTEM
@UTAustin @FreshmanResearch
“I found it. That was my passion.”
We sat down for a chat with Ananya Gupta and Christa Louthan, two mentors in the Dwarf Stars stream of our Freshman Research Initiative. They reveal how they chose to become mentors, the challenges of their work, why they love what they do and more.
Ananya and freshman astronomy major Camden Adams are also featured in a story and longer video about student researchers who get to operate the McDonald Observatory’s amazing 107-inch telescope. They recently investigated whether a distant globular cluster could contain a black hole. Learn more at https://cns.utexas.edu/news/features/night-telescope.
Happy FRIday!
#HappyFRIday #TexasScience #Astrophysics #WhiteDwarf #WomenInSTEM
@UTAustin @FreshmanResearch
