Lilly Bralts-Kelly Email & Phone Number

Urbana, Il, Us

Urbana-Champaign Area

• Oversee nutrition incentives and food access (SNAP, Link Match, WIC/Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Programs, etc.) at the Champaign Farmers Market, the Champaign-Urbana Winter Farmers Market, and Urbana's Market at the Square• Recruit central IL farmers markets, direct-to-consumer farmers, and other qualifying businesses to the The Land Connection's "Link Hub"• Provide Hub businesses with necessary technology, training, and other supplies to launch and maintain their Link and Link Match programs• Manage accounting for food access programs at all Hub businesses

Urbana-Champaign Area

• Process SNAP transactions and distribute nutrition incentives to qualifying customers at the Champaign Farmers Market and the Champaign-Urbana Winter Farmers Market• Assist Farmers Market Manager with operational duties as needed, including filling in as Manager in case of absence

Urbana, Illinois, United States

• Taught 3 online discussion sections for ASTR 122: Stars and Galaxies, totaling ~75 students• Led synchronous class sessions once per week, hosted regular office hours, proctored exams via Zoom, and assigned grades/provided feedback to students• Named to the University's Excellent Teachers List for fall 2020

St. Paul, Minnesota

• Assigned grades and provided feedback to students• Hosted dedicated office hours and review sessions• Courses assisted: PHYS 113 (Modern Astronomy I), PHYS 227 (Principles of Physics II), MATH 312 (Differential Equations), PHYS 348 (Laboratory Instrumentation), PHYS 440 (Observational Astronomy), PHYS 481 (Quantum Mechanics)

St. Paul, Minnesota

• Tutored Macalester physics and astronomy students of all levels, both individually and in groups• Assisted with problem sets, lab preparation, and exam review• Provided mentoring to students throughout their Macalester careers

St. Paul, Minnesota

• Operated Macalester's 16-inch reflector telescope for observing nights open to the Minneapolis/St. Paul public• Answered questions and gave talks about the cosmos and advances in astronomy at Macalester• Drew over 200 attendees to our event for the January 2019 total lunar eclipse!

Dwingeloo, The Netherlands

• Imaged several candidate nearby dwarf galaxies using data from the Very Large Array and modeled the kinematics of these objects using pyBBarolo• Selected objects for further study based on likelihood of being neighboring galaxies• Advised by Dr. Betsey Adams and funded by ASTRON• Presented a poster at the 235th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS Chambliss Award Honorable Mention)

Ann Arbor, Michigan

• Wrote C++ procedures to simulate and analyze the effects of cosmic ray showers on JSNS2, a liquid scintillator neutrino experiment• Modeled the efficacy of a "veto" layer in eliminating false positive detections• Advised by Dr. Joshua Spitz and funded by the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program

• Wrote a weekly (2014-2017) to monthly (2018) personal column as a "diarist"• Contributed original playlists and articles to music and advice columns

St. Paul, Minnesota

• Imaged the neutral hydrogen content of nearby dwarf galaxy KDG 215 using data from the Very Large Array• Advised by Dr. John Cannon• Presented a poster at the 233rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society• Results were peer reviewed and published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters (5th author)

Bozeman, Montana

• Studied high-energy solar flares in the hard X-rays and ultraviolet, using data from the NASA/RHESSI, SDO/AIA, and SDO/HMI solar observation instruments• Wrote IDL procedures to analyze the evolution of these events in both location and energy; adaptations of these procedures are still in use at Montana State today• Advised by Dr. Jiong Qiu and funded by the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program

St. Paul, Minnesota

• Analyzed ~200 extragalactic sources for the Arecibo Pisces-Perseus Supercluster Survey• Imaged the neutral hydrogen content of nearby dwarf galaxies UGC 11411 and UGC 8245 using data from the Very Large Array• Discovered interesting connections between the star formation and dark matter content of these galaxies• Advised by Dr. John Cannon• Results were peer reviewed and published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters (1st author)