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ADELAIDE AMES was a twentieth-century lady astronomer full of the awesome.
She completed her undergraduate education at Vassar College before graduating from Radcliffe College (the first woman at Radcliffe to receive an M.A. in Astronomy!) in 1924. While at Harvard, she and Harlow Shapley worked together to complete the Shapley-Ames catalog, which listed galaxies brighter than the 13th magnitude and whose data challenged the assumption of the universe’s isotropy.
At the age of 32, Ames drowned in a boating accident. Her friend and fellow astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin remembered her as “young, lovely, and intensely vital” and “the closest friend [she] ever made at the Observatory.”[1]
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Last week I visited Vassar and SUNY Purchase with my students. I was pretty excited to learn that Tracy Middendorf attended Purchase! When we posed for a photo, I instructed my students to say “Laura Kingman” instead of “cheese.” The tour guide was pretty great and took this in stride. “She was on Beverly Hills, 90210, and she went here,” I explained. He just said okay.
Naturally, I was intent on finding a Beverly Hills, 90210 connection with Vassar. There’s actually an episode in which Andrea talks to Kelly and Dylan about her college search.
Andrea: Well, I’ve narrowed it down to Swarthmore, Duke, Vassar and Brandeis.
Dylan: What’s your first choice?
Andrea: None of them.
I really can’t picture Andrea at Duke.
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Okay…This is going to be a weird request but bear with me.
I’m a HS Senior looking to apply to… Well, I have a huge list of schools. So…
Sell me. Tell me why your school is the best. Tell me what you love about the campus and its people. Convince me why I should consider this school higher than the rest.
Seriously, help me out here. Please and thank you!
