In 2017 we announced a new AAS-sponsored program for graduate students: the AAS Media Fellowship. This quarter-time opportunity is intended for current graduate students in the astronomical sciences who wish to cultivate their science-communication skills.
Lexi Gault (Indiana University) has been selected as the 2024–2025 AAS Media Fellow.
We are pleased to announce that Lexi Gault, an astronomy PhD candidate at Indiana University, has been selected as our AAS Media Fellow for 2024–2025.
Lexi majored in astronomy and mathematics at Valparaiso University, with minors in French and studio art. Now a fourth-year graduate student at Indiana University, Lexi works with Betsey Adams (ASTRON) and John Salzer to study the impacts of stellar feedback-driven outflows on the interstellar medium in nearby low-mass galaxies.
Outside of research, Lexi participates in a number of community outreach activities and serves as a research mentor. She’s also been to the top of the Green Bank Telescope a few times, most recently as a participant in the Green Bank Observatory Single Dish Summer School in 2023!
Lexi (front row, just right of center) with the participants of the 2023 Single Dish Summer School. [Green Bank Observatory; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0]
As we welcome Lexi to the team, we’ll also soon bid farewell to Ben Cassese, our 2022–2024 AAS Media Fellow. Ben will be continuing his PhD studies at Columbia in the Cool Worlds Lab under David Kipping, where he is searching for moons around extrasolar planets. Following his enjoyable and enriching time as the Media Fellow, he hopes to pursue some freelance science writing and will be sure to say hi to the press team at future AAS meetings.
Please join us in welcoming Lexi as our new Media Fellow and wishing Ben the best in all his future endeavors!