Education:

University of Hawai'i at Manoa Institute for Astronomy 2680 Woodlawn Drive Honolulu, HI 96822	Ph.D. in Astronomy, December 2007 M.S. in Astronomy, May 2004
Vassar College 124 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie, NY 12604	B.A. in Physics and Astronomy, May 2001 departmental honors in Physics and Astronomy, and general honors
Victor Central High School 953 High Street Victor, NY 14564	Valedictorian High Honors, June 1997

Honors & Awards:

Helen Jones Farrar ARCS Scholar	2005
Phi Beta Kappa	2001
Sigma Xi	2001
Lucy Kellogg English Prize for Excellence in Physics	2001
Barry M. Goldwater Scholar	2000 - 2001
Ethel Hickox Pollard Memorial Physics Prize	2000
Jimmy Treybig Scholarship	1999 - 2001
New York State Regents Scholarship	1997 - 2001

Teaching and Research Experience:

2007 - present	Postdoctoral Researcher: Developing the science cases and their requirements on system design for the Next Generation Adaptive Optics System at the W. M. Keck Observatory, supervisor: Claire Max, UC Santa Cruz
2004 - 2007	Ph.D. Dissertation: "Formation and Evolution of Massive Galaxies and AGN in the Early Universe", Committee: Stockton (chair), Chambers, Ebeling, Hu, Szapudi, Audra Bullock (outside member), University of Hawaii
Summer 2005	Lecturer, Astronomy 110: "Survey of Astronomy", taught through the UH Manoa Outreach College
2002 - 2003	Luminosity Function and Evolution of Faint Radio Galaxies, advisor: Ken Chambers, Institute for Astronomy
2002 - 2003	Oldest Stellar Populations and Galaxy Morphology, advisor: Alan Stockton, Institute for Astronomy
2001 - 2002	Galactic Chemical Abundances of the Light Elements: Li, Be, and B, advisor: Ann Boesgaard, Institute for Astronomy
2000 - 2001	Circumnuclear Star Formation in NGC 3310, advisors: Debra M. Elmegreen and Frederick R. Chromey, Vassar College
Summer 2000	Microlensing Towards the Large Magellanic Cloud, advisor: Kailash Sahu, Space Telescope Science Institute
Summer 1999	Water Masers in the Active Star Formation Regions W49N and Sagittarius B2, advisor: W. Miller Goss, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Summer 1998	Optical and Radio Variability of the Blazar AO 0235+164, advisor: Thomas J. Balonek, Colgate University

Professional Organizations

2001 - present	Phi Beta Kappa Society
2001 - present	Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Society, Associate Member
1999 - present	American Astronomical Society, Junior Member

Computer Skills

Operating Systems:	UNIX Solaris, Linux, Windows XP, Mac OS X
Software:	Image Processing and Analysis: AIPS, CIAO, Galfit, Hyperz, IDL, Imcat, IRAF, SExtractor Plotting and Typesetting: Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, Gimp, IDL, LaTex, MS Office, SM, WIP
Programming:	C, Fortran, HTML, Perl

Observing and Data Handling Experience

Space Telescopes	Spitzer	2008, 11 hours IRAC imaging	project PI
	HST	2006, 31 orbits NICMOS and ACS imaging
	Chandra	2004, 115 ks with ACIS-I
Mauna Kea	Keck I	2005, 1 night LRIS optical imaging	project PI
	Keck II	2006, 1 night LGS AO imaging with NIRC2
		2006, 1 night LGS AO spectroscopy with OSIRIS	project PI
		2005, 2 nights DEIMOS spectroscopy
		2005, 1 night LGS AO imaging with NIRC2
		2004, 1.6 nights DEIMOS optical spectroscopy	project PI
		2004, 1 night ESI optical spectroscopy	project PI
	Subaru	2006, 1 night MOIRCS imaging
		2004, 0.5 nights IRCS AO imaging	project PI
	Gemini North	2003, 3 nights NIRI IR imaging and spectroscopy	project PI
	CFHT	2006, 12 hours queue, WIRCam wide-field IR imager	project PI
		2005, 3 hours queue, MegaCam wide-field imaging	project PI
		2003, 7 hours queue, MegaCam wide-field imaging	project PI
	UKIRT	2006, 9 nights WFCAM IR wide-field imaging	project PI
		2005, 1.5 nights WFCAM IR wide-field imaging	project PI
		2003, 8 nights UFTI/UIST IR imaging and spectrosopy	project PI
	NASA IRTF	2004, 3 nights SpeX IR spectroscopy
	UH 88"	2005, 9 nights ULBCAM IR wide-field imaging	project PI
		2004, ~20 nights ULBCAM IR wide-field imaging	project PI
		2002, 6 nights optical imaging
NRAO	VLA	2004, 25 hours continuum observations
		2003, 12 hours continuum observations
		1999, 4 hours spectral line observations
Kitt Peak	Burrell Schmidt Telescope (0.6m)	1999, 7 nights optical imaging

Outreach

AstroDay (April)	Starlab Planetarium Shows
CfAO Professional Development	Developed inquiry-based activity for undergrad course in intro astronomy
Habilitat Addiction Treatment Center	Telescope viewing following general astronomy talk
Institute for Astronomy Open House	Starlab Planetarium Shows
K-12 classroom activities	Portable Starlab Planetarium Shows, Star Parties
Women in Science and Technology	Talk given to local Jr. High School students

Publications

McGrath, E. J. & Chambers, K. C. 2008. "Luminosity Function of the mJy Radio Source Population", in prep.

McGrath, E. J., Stockton, A., Canalizo, G., Iye, M., & Maihara, T. 2007. "Morphologies and Color Gradients of Luminous Evolved Galaxies at z~1.5", ApJ, 682, 303

Stockton, A., McGrath, E., Canalizo, G., Iye, M., & Maihara, T. 2008, "Morphologies of Two Massive Galaxies at z~2.5", ApJ, 672, 146

McGrath, E. J., Stockton, A., & Canalizo, G. 2008, "Stellar Populations of Luminous Evolved Galaxies at z~1.5", ApJ, 669, 241

Stockton, A. & McGrath, E. 2007, "Identification and Morphologies of Galaxies with Old Stellar Populations at z~2.5", ASP Conf. Ser., in press [astro-ph/0702130]

Stockton, A., McGrath, E., & Canalizo, G. 2006. "Extremely Red Objects in Two Quasar Fields at z~1.4" ApJ, 650, 706

McGrath, E. J., Goss, W. M., and DePree, C. G. 2004. "Water Masers in W49 North and Sagittarius B2," ApJS, 155, 577

Boesgaard, A. M., McGrath, E. J., Lambert, D. L., and Cunha, K. 2004. "Boron Benchmarks for the Galactic Disk," ApJ, 606, 306

Elmegreen, D. M., Chromey, F. R., McGrath, E. J., Ostenson, J. 2002. "Circumnuclear Star Formation in the Spiral Galaxy NGC 3310", AJ, 123, 1381

Raiteri, C. M., et al. 2001. "Optical and radio variability of the BL Lac object AO 0235+164: a possible 5-6 year periodicity", A&A, 377, 396

McGrath, E. J. 2000. "Microlensing Towards the Large Magellanic Cloud," Proc. of the KNAC Research Symposium

DePree, C. G., Wilner, D. J., Goss, W. M., Welch, W. J., McGrath, E. 2000. "Ultracompact HII Regions in W49N at 500 AU Scales: Shells, Winds, and the Water Maser Source", ApJ, 540, 308

Webb, J. R., Howard, E., Benitez, E., Balonek, T., McGrath, E., Shrader, C., Robson, I., Jenkins, P. 2000. "The 1997 Outburst of AO 0235+164: Evidence for a Microlensing Event?" AJ, 120, 41

McGrath, E. J. 1999. "H₂0 Masers in W49N," Proc. of the KNAC Research Symposium, 55

McGrath, E. J. 1998. "The Blazar 0235+164: A Study of the Correlation Between Optical and Radio Variations," Proc. of the KNAC Research Symposium, 78

Posters/Abstracts

McGrath, E. J. 2008. "Formation and Evolution of Massive Galaxies in the Early Universe", BAAS, v39n4, 123.03D

McGrath, E. J. & Stockton, A. 2007. "Structure and Formation of Massive Galaxies with Old Stellar Populations at z=1.5", BAAS, v38n4, 112.03

McGrath, E. J. & Stockton, A. 2006. "Origins of the Earliest Massive Galaxies", presented at Cosmic Frontiers, Durham, UK

McGrath, E. J. & Stockton, A. 2006. "Origins of the Earliest Massive Galaxies", presented at the Keck Science Meeting, Irvine, CA

Kocevski, D., Bloom, J. S., & McGrath, E. J. 2006. "GRB 060116: UKIRT IR observations", GCN, 4540

Kocevski, D., Bloom, J. S., & McGrath, E. J. 2006. "GRB 060116: IR candidate afterglow", GCN, 4528

Stockton, A., McGrath, E., & Canalizo, G. 2005. "Morphologies of Galaxies with Old Stellar Populations at High Redshifts", Bull. Am. Astron. Soc., v37n4, 78.04

Boesgaard, A. M., McGrath, E. J., and Deliyannis, C. P. 2005. "Boron Benchmarks, Boron Depletion, and the Boron-Beryllium Correlation," Bull. Am. Astron. Soc., v36n5, 77.03

McGrath, E. J., Boesgaard, A. M., Lambert, D. L., and Cunha, K. 2002. "Boron in Solar-Type Galactic Disk Stars," Bull. Am. Astron. Soc., v34n2, 7.14

Elmegreen, D. M., Chromey, F. R., McGrath, E. J., and Ostenson, J. 2001. "Circumnuclear Star Formation in the Starburst Spiral Galaxy NGC 3310," Bull. Am. Astron. Soc., v33n4, 14.02

McGrath, E. J. and Sahu, K. C. 2000. "Microlensing Towards the Large Magellanic Cloud," Bull. Am. Astron. Soc., v32n4, 105.09

McGrath, E. J., Balonek, T. J., and Brandt, T. J. 2000. "A History of Correlations Between Optical and Radio Outbursts in the Blazar AO 0235+164," BAAS, v32n2, 50.06

McGrath, E. J., Goss,W. M., DePree, C. G. 1999. "H₂0 Masers in W49N," BAAS, v31n5, 53.15

DePree, C. G., Wilner, D. J., Goss, W. M., McGrath, E., Welch, W. J. 1999. "Evidence of Ionized Winds in W49N on 0.0025 pc Scales," BAAS, v31n5, 53.14

Wilner, David J.; Depree, Chris G.; Goss, W. Miller; Welch, W. Jack; McGrath, Elizabeth 1999. "Subarcsecond Observations of High Mass Star Formation in W49N," Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), Associated Universities, Inc.

Howard, E. S., Webb, J. R., Benitez, E. M., Balonek, T. J., McGrath, E., Shrader, C. R. 1999. "Multifrequency Observations of BL Lacertae Object A0 0235+164," BAAS, v31n3, 73.12

Press Release

McGrath, E. J., Stockton, A., Canalizo, G., Iye, M., Maihara, T. 2008. "Hubble Reveals Massive Disk Galaxies in the Early Universe", 111th Meeting of the AAS, Austin, TX

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