Congratulations to Pepper Rhodes for a fantastic presentation at the Young Scholars Senior Summit Showcase!  The YSSS program hosts extremely talented high school students that have been selected as Jack Kent Cooke Foundation scholars to participate in a three-week research mentoring program at UConn.  Pepper has investigated the components and structure of galaxy clusters using cosmological simulations!

Pepper comparing the dark matter and gas components in a massive galaxy cluster and explaining her Python code:

Pepper and the mentoring team:  Jonathan Mercedes-Feliz, Matthew Gebhardt, Xavier Sims, Niranjan Roy (not in the picture), and Daniel Anglés-Alcázar.

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