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Background

Professor Kunder received her bachelor’s degree from Willamette University and her Ph.D. from Dartmouth College. Her area of expertise is astrophysics, with more than 80 refereed scientific publications, including being an editor of an Astronomy Society of the Pacific Conference Series.  Professor Kunder came to ���ϲʿ� after a postdoctoral fellowship at the Leibniz Institute of Astrophysics (AIP) in Germany, and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.  She has been teaching at ���ϲʿ�'s University since 2017.

Publications with ���ϲʿ�'s undergraduates:

Bold names indicate undergraduates working with Dr. Kunder.

• Andrea Kunder, Prudil, Z., Skaggs, C., Reggiani, H., Nataf, D.M., Hughes, J., Covey, K., Devine, K. (2024)  "”, The Astronomical Journal, 168, 139 
• Andrea Kunder, Prudil, Z., Covey, K.R., Hughes, J., Joyce, M., Simion, I.T., Kuss, R., Campos, C., Johnson ,C.I., Pilachowski, C.A., Larson, K.A., Koch-Hansen, A.J., Marchetti, T., Rich, M.R., Butler, E., Clarkson, W.I., Rivet, M., Devine, K., Vivas, A.K., Perren, G.I., Soto, M., Silva, E. (2024), “” The Astronomical Journal, 167, 21
• Evan Butler, Andrea Kunder, Prudil, Z., Covey, K.R., Ball, M., Campos, C.,Gollnick, K., Olivares Carvajal, J., Hughes, J., Devine, K., Johnson, C.I., Vivas, K.A., Rich, R.M., Joyce, M., Simion, I.T., Marchetti, T., Koch-Hansen, A., Clarkson, W.I., Kuss, R. (2024), “” The Astronomical Journal Letters, 963, 33
• Andrea Kunder, Crabb, R.E., Debattista, V.P., Koch-Hansen, A.J., Huhmann, B.M. (2021) "”  The Astronomical Journal, 162, 86
• Andrea Kunder & Butler, E. (2020), "" The Astronomical Journal, 160, 241
• Andrea Kunder, Pérez-Villegas, A., Rich, R. M., Ogata, J., Murari, E., Boren, E., Johnson, C. I., Nataf, D., and 6 coauthors (2020) "" The Astronomical Journal, 159, 270
• Andrea Kunder, Tilton, A., Maertens, D., Ogata, J., Nataf, D., Rich, R. M., Johnson, C.I., Gilligan, C., Chaboyer, B. (2019) "" The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 877, 17
• Andrea Kunder, Mills, A., Edgecomb, J., Thomas, M., Schilter, L., Boyle, C., Parker, S., Bellevue, G., Rich, R. M., Koch, A., Johnson, C. I., Nataf, D. M. (2018) "" The Astronomical Journal, 155, 171

Recent accomplishments:

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• 2023 best physics and engineering poster at the Murdock College Science Research Conference awarded to Kunder's student, Claire Skaggs
•  (10,000 USD)
•  (30,000 USD)
•  (187,394 USD)
•  (Collaboration with Seattle University, Western Washington University, College of Idaho ($370,066 USD)
• Murdock College Research Program for Natural Sciences - Physical Sciences grant (63,000 USD)
• 2020 best physics and engineering poster at the Murdock College Science Research Conference awarded to Kunder's student, Riley Crabb

Research interests:

Many of Dr. Kunder's scientific projects to date have involved observations of stars over large areas of the sky, acquiring both spectra and images of celestial objects to determine their properties.  She is an expert in using old stars to study the Galactic bulge, and is the principal investigator of the Bulge Radial Velocity Assay for RR Lyrae stars (BRAVA-RR), a survey funded by the National Science Foundation.  Kunder has also had a hand in characterizing several astronomical instruments used by the US National Observatory in Chile.