2006: Invited plenary lecture at the 207th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Washington, DC

Since July, 2004: Assistant Professor of Astronomy at The University of Michigan.

2003: CAREER: Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation.

2002: Co-organizer (with Deidre Hunter) of the 2002 Lowell Workshop: The Outer Edges of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies: Stars and Gas.

2001 - 2004: Assistant Astronomer at Lowell Observatory.

1999: Organizer, Topical Session, Shells in the Global ISM at Chicago AAS Centennial meeting.

1999: Annie Jump Cannon Award of the AAS and AAUW.

1998 - 2001: STScI Institute Fellow of the Space Telescope Science Institute.

1995 - 1998: Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, U.K.: Institute postdoctoral Research Fellow in observational astronomy.

September 19, 1995: Thesis defense.

1988 - 1995: University of Arizona, Steward Observatory:
Ph.D. in Astronomy (1995), working primarily with Rob Kennicutt (thesis advisor) and Phil Massey (NOAO). Also worked with Erick Young, designing and building a testing dewar for a 1D prototype of the MIPS detector aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope.

1993: First refereed paper: Oey & Kennicutt, ApJ 411, 137

April 25, 1991: Prelim exam.

1986 - 1988: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, with the High Energy Astrophysics Division Einstein X-ray database team:
With Belinda Wilkes and Martin Elvis, contributed to studies of the spectral energy distributions of quasars. Also assisted Belinda Wilkes and Harvey Tananbaum in compiling a database of Einstein X-ray observations of quasars. Additional duties maintaining the Einstein data archive.

1987: First observing runs: SAO 24-in and MMT at Mt. Hopkins, with Belinda Wilkes.

1987: First abstract published: Soderblom et al., BAAS 19, 1021.

1986: Bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College, in Physics and Latin

1985: Summer Research Assistant with Dave Soderblom at the Space Telescope Science Institute: Reduced coudé spectra of solar-type stars to obtain lithium abundances.

Photo by D.T. Oey.