Kathryn Plant (PhD '23) is a radio astronomer and astroparticle physicist who works as a postdoctoral scholar at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed by Caltech. She recently won the Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics for her PhD thesis work on cosmic rays.
Local high school student makes breakthroughs at Caltech.
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The Astronomy Department at the California Institute of Technology is part of the Division of Physics, Math, and Astronomy. The primary mission of our department is twofold: the performance of cutting-edge research in astronomy and astrophysics, including theory, observation, and experiment, as well as the education of undergraduate and graduate students and training of postdoctoral research associates who will comprise the scientists and leaders of tomorrow. We are located in the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics on the Caltech campus.