Scientists are constantly searching for ways to understand how galaxies, black holes and stars form, grow and reorganize in the universe. Astrophysics is the field tasked with helping to explain some of these things.
In second grade, Abigail Nalesnik worked on a volcano project for school and said that it kicked off a lifelong love of volcanoes. However, as an undergraduate student at Salisbury University living on the eastern shore of Maryland , Nalesnik wasn’t sure it would be possible to study volcanoes until she started to apply to graduate schools and visited Jessica Warren’s Mantle Processes Group at the University of Delaware.
