{"id":2179,"date":"2017-04-18T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developmenttwo.marymount.edu\/blog\/maria-camarca-lands-prestigious-nasa-internship\/"},"modified":"2017-04-18T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T10:49:00","slug":"maria-camarca-lands-prestigious-nasa-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/blog\/maria-camarca-lands-prestigious-nasa-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Camarca Lands Prestigious NASA Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"
Marymount University\u0092s Maria Camarca will spend the summer analyzing the chemical makeup of comets at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, part of a project that may eventually provide answers to how the building blocks of life could have been introduced to early Earth.<\/p>\n
\u0093Maria is a fantastic student and is among the best that Marymount has to offer,\u0094 said Dr. Eric Bubar<\/a>, an assistant professor of biology and physical sciences. \u0093She has a tremendous range of skills throughout a variety of scientific fields and has done projects involving stellar astrophysics, 3D printing of prosthetic arms, and revolutionizing learning approaches for organic chemistry.\u0094<\/p>\n While at Goddard, the senior from Fredericksburg will use a process called spectroscopy, which measures the interaction between matter and electromagnetic radiation. Camarca became familiar with it during an independent research project as a first-year student at Marymount and credits Bubar for encouraging her.<\/p>\n \u0093Dr. Bubar stressed that if you start doing research as a freshman you\u0092ll gain experience over four years,\u0094 Camarca said. \u0093At the time, I had no idea how much that specific project would help me.\u0094<\/p>\n