From left: Brandon and Ella presenting STEPUP's poster at the 2020 Conference for Undergraudate Women in Physics
in Pittsburgh.
From left: Ella, Brandon, Peter, Marissa, Helena, Maura, and Lou in the Astro Computing Lab at Pitt.
From left: Logan, Grace, Dr. Wood-Vasey, Salena, and Zach presenting at the 2017 FER Symposium.
From left: Zoe, Megan and Lydia presenting at the 2015 FER Symposium.
From left: Nelson, Nina, Dr. Wood-Vasey, Jesse, Brendan, Allison, Daniel, Janel and Tianyi in front of the
Keeler Telescope.
The original STEPUP team from left: Melanie, Gary, Maya, Dr. Wood-Vasey, Gwen, Nelson and Korena.
- Professor Mentor:
Dr. Wood-Vasey
- Observatory Manager:
Lou Coban
- Founder:
Dr. Melanie Good
- Lead Undergradute:
Marina Skuban ('27)
Active Undergraduates
- Nate Johnson ('25)
- Katie Borsh ('25)
- Sasha Reeder ('26)
- Spencer Freeman ('26)
- Kelsey Hall ('27)
- Marina Skuban ('27)
- Randy Miller ('27)
- Sara Gelven ('27)
- Vincent Niedermayer ('28)
- Al Riska ('28)
- Alex Whitten ('28)
- Alexa Marcoz ('28)
STEPUP Alumni
- Francis Draus (Master's Student)
- Jakob Bindas ('23)
- Chelsea Mahaffey ('23)
- Adam Pundt ('23)
- Luke Docherty ('24)
- Isabel Fernandez ('24)
- Nigel Hamilton ('24)
- Anika Kumar ('24)
- Alison Linares Mendoza ('24)
- Aaron Wang ('24)
- Luke Lamitina ('27)
- Mars Wilson ('27)
- Brandon Cane ('22)
- Katie Mack ('22)
- Maura Shapiro ('21)
- Jackson Perry ('21)
- William Tarleton ('21)
- Helena Richie ('20)
- Marissa DeFallo ('20)
- Peter Dye ('20)
- Jordan Botta ('17)
- Ian Cooper ('17)
- Caralyn Gorman ('17)
- Sarah Thornton ('17)
- Hailey Innocenzo ('17)
- Janel Alilio ('16)
- Sarah Birmingham ('16)
- Brendan Cox ('16)
- Nina Yacovoni ('16)
- Allison Weller ('16)
- Daniel Whitehurst ('16)
- Michael DeLuca ('15)
- Sophia Taborski ('15)
- Diane Bronikowski ('15)
- Jesse Cohen ('14)
- Tianyi Zhang ('14)
- Aniket Patel ('14)
- Linzi Webster ('14)
- Aniket Patel ('14)
- Linzi Webster ('14)
- Nelson Hua ('13)
- Shane Cerutti ('13)
- Kaitlyn Yoha ('12)
- Justine Drobitch ('12)
- Chelsea Vincent ('12)
- Gary Lander ('11)
- Gwen Weaver ('11)
- Maya Hunt ('11)
- Eric Roebuck ('11)
- Korena Costello ('10)
- Maya Hunt ('10)