Teaching

Guest Lecturer, A115: Birth and Death of the Universe

Spring 2023

In-person guest lecturer on the general properties, environments and evolution of spiral, elliptical, and irregular galaxies.

Tutoring at Indiana University

A115: Birth and Death of the Universe, Spring 2021

A105: Stars and Galaxies, Fall 2023

Helping students work through their course material to improve their understanding.

Instructor of Record, A105: Stars and Galaxies

Summer 2023

Introductory online summer course for non-majors. Responsibilities included grading, holding office hours, sending daily announcements, updating quiz questions, and submitting grades for 30 students. Topics Included: Topics included : The formation and evolution of stars, galaxies, and the universe.

Instructor of Record, A100: Art of Astronomy

Summer 2022

Introductory online summer course for non-majors. Responsibilities included grading, holding office hours, sending daily announcements, updating quiz questions, and submitting grades for 30 students. Topics Included : The formation of the solar system and different properties of the planets and moons.

Instructor of Record, A107: Art of Astronomy

Summer 2021

Introductory online summer course for non-majors. Responsibilities included grading, holding office hours, sending daily announcements, updating quiz questions, and submitting grades for 30 students. Topics Included: imaging aesthetics and science, gas and dust content, star formation, galaxy morphology and formation, and cosmology.

Associate Instructor, A105: Stars and Galaxies

Spring 2021

Introductory online course for non-majors. Responsibilities included grading, holding office hours and giving feedback to 150 students. Topics Included: seasons; distances and sizes; Milky Way composition, size, and morphology; dark matter and dark energy.

Associate Instructor, A103: Search for Life in the Universe

Fall 2020

Introductory course for non-majors. Responsibilities included grading, holding office hours, and giving feedback to 200 students. Topics included: How life began on Earth; looking for life in the solar system; looking for life around other stars; what environments are needed and how a specific environment could be habitable.

Associate Instructor, A105: Stars and Galaxies

Spring 2020

Introductory course for non-majors. Responsibilities included grading, holding office hours, and giving feedback to 250 students. Aided Professor in converting the course to Online during COVID-19 pandemic. Topics included: lunar phases; lunar and solar eclipse; observing light; black holes.

Associate Instructor, A107: Art of Astronomy

Fall 2019

Introductory course for non-majors. Responsibilities included grading, holding office hours, and giving feedback to 120 students. Topics included: The electromagnetic spectrum; spectral lines of point-like and extended objects; using Photoshop to create astronomical images from broadband and narrowband images.

UG Teaching Assistant, A105: Stars and Galaxies

Spring 2019

Introductory course for non-majors. Responsibilities included grading classwork and helping 150-250 students understand new material. Topics included: The basic structure of our local neighborhood; the structure and evolution of the Sun and other stars; the properties, formation, and evolution of galaxies; the large-scale structure of the Universe; and the origin and fate of the Universe.

UG Grader, J112: Intro to College Math II

Spring 2019

Two courses in the Spring semester and one in the Fall semester. Responsibilities included grading and providing feedback on homework for 30-40 students per course. Topics included: Algebraic operations and equations; functions and graphing; polynomials; exponential and logarithmic functions.