The Wilkins Group is just getting started as of Fall 2024, but we are excited to welcome student researchers to help build the lab and analyze some telescope data. If you are a Dickinson student interested in doing research with Prof. Wilkins, please email her at wilkins@dickinson.edu.

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Dr. Olivia Harper Wilkins

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Dickinson Class of 2015

Favorite Dickinson course: Creating New Worlds: Myth in Tolkien, Lewis, and Rowling (RELG 301)

Campus involvement: Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Favorite interstellar molecule: Cyanoacetylene (HC3N)

Current project: ordering all the vacuum parts

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Grace Helton

Dickinson Class of 2025

Favorite Dickinson course: Concepts of Inorganic Chemistry (CHEM 347)

Campus Involvement: Project Wave, ACS Dickinson Chapter, Dickincinema, Trident, Proctor, and Teaching Assistant!

Favorite interstellar molecule: Acetic Acid (CH3COOH)

Current Project: ALMA observations of methanol isotopologues in Orion KL

Olivia Lyon

Dickinson Class of 2025

Favorite Dickinson course: Concepts of Inorganic Chemistry (CHEM 347)

Campus involvement: Women’s Club Soccer, ACS Student Chapter President, Teaching Assistant

Favorite interstellar molecule: Formaldehyde (H2CO)

Current project: building a cosmic ice experiment