Observational extragalactic astronomy – Prof. Danilo Marchesini and Prof. Anna Sajina are active in the study of galaxy formation and evolution. This research involves obtaining and analyzing data from major ground-based and space-borne observatories — including the Very Large Array in New Mexico, the National Optical Astronomy Observatories in Arizona and Chile, the Keck Telescope in Hawaii, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Herschel Space Telescope. Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to become actively involved with these research endeavors. To learn more about ongoing research, click on the links to the websites of Prof. Marchesini and Prof. Sajina below. Solar Physics – Prof. Ken Lang, and Prof. Robert Wilson are engaged in solar physics research based on data from the Very Large Array in New Mexico, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, (SOHO) as well as the Ramaty High Energy Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI). To learn more follow this link: