Tara Sweeney
Consultant
Bio
Education
- Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
- B.A. cum laude, 2020
- Astronomy major with high honors, Linguistics major, German Studies minor
- James O. Freedman Presidential Scholar
- John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding Funding Recipient
- Dartmouth UGAR Funding Recipient
Employment
May 2021 – Present
- Consultant, Compton & Wendler, P.C.
Dec. 2020 – Present
- Research Assistant, Dartmouth College Department of Physics & Astronomy investigating the effects of rotation on magnetic field heating of the stellar corona in M dwarf stars
Oct. 2020 – April 2021
- Near-Field Spectroscopy Intern, Space Telescope Science Institute
- Reduced optical and infrared spectra and wrote Python and IDL codes to investigate the relationship between M and L Dwarf metallicity and galactic kinematics
Jan. 2018 – March 2018
- Research Department Intern, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
- Examined and wrote a comprehensive report in German describing Stefan Zweig’s catalog inventory
Dec. 2016 – Feb. 2017
- Gibgot, Willenbacher & Co.
- Organized tax documentation
2016-2020
- Undergraduate Research Assistant, Dartmouth College
- Department of Linguistics
- Analyzed speaker recordings for rhoticity and prepared text grid files for vowel analysis
- Department of Physics & Astronomy
- Developed a novel method and Python code for locating large-scale continuous electric vector position angle rotations in blazar jets
- Department of Linguistics