Graduating senior, Alessandra Canta, winner of both a College Hoopes Prize and the Department's Senior Goldberg Prize.
Alessandra switched her concentration to Astronomy only a year ago, just in time to win the most prestigious prizes for her senior thesis "“Unlocking the Key to Life: Observation and Formation of Nitriles in Protoplanetary Disks". Karin Öberg was her advisor. She will be starting graduate school in London this September.