* Astronomy

At the end of last semester, a group of Kent State physics students drove to Boston for what was not your average college road trip. The students were off to pick up a special donation: a radio telescope.
The summer before, senior physics major Aaron Slodov had taken an internship with the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Institute. His job was to make lists of habitable star systems to be used for a new radio telescope that SETI had built with the University of California, Berkeley.
Slodov thought it would be a good idea for a senior research project to build a radio telescope for Kent State.

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