2019 New Colombo Plan Scholars - Rhona Hamilton
Rhona Hamilton is currently on exchange at the University of Tokyo. Rhona is currently studying a Bachelor of Science majoring in Physics, and has also completed a Diploma of Languages in Japanese. As a recipient of a 2019 New Colombo Plan Scholarship, Rhona has been funded for her exchange and a two-month internship with a photonics laboratory at the University of Tokyo, as well as an additional internship at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.
We interviewed Rhona before her departure to Tokyo in mid-March. She had just returned from an internship in New South Wales, where she was working with CSIRO in their Space Science and Astrophysics group.
¡°The project was mapping neutral hydrogen distribution in nearby galaxies. It was really cool. There was a trip to the Australian Telescope Compact Array, which is in a town called Narrabri. I spent a week there doing observations. Most of the internship was data analysis, so I had to give a presentation and report at the end about my research. It was a really inte