Following up on the work of Seon et. al (2014), this project uses ultraviolet data from the Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (Swift-UVOT) and XMM-Newton Optical Monitor (XMM-OM) Telescope to measure the dusty halos of edge-on galaxies. Through this investigation, we aim to establish a relationship between the scale height of the ultraviolet disk and the star formation rate of the galaxy. The manuscript for this work has been sent to collaborators for review and we hope to see it published in early 2023. Our early results were presented at the 240th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Project funded by the NASA-Kentucky Space Grant. Duration: January 2020 to December 2022.

Mentor: Dr. Benne Holwerda, University of Louisville.

This project utilized Hubble Frontier Fields data to search for the brightest galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization within Abell 2744's parallel field. Although there is much work left to do, our preliminary results include 2763 detected objects with 78 high-redshift galaxy candidates located between redshift 5.5 and 8.5. This project was conducted as part of the Summer 2021 LEAPS/ESA-ESTEC program hosted at Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Mentor: Dr. Rachana Bhatawdekar, ESA/ESTEC.