Prof. Illie and his team of undergraduate students at 51·çÁ÷ have been working on understanding the effect of dark matter in the growth of stars and the interaction of dark matter with regular matter. Some of their findings have recently been published in the in 2019 and in 2020. These papers report on the work done with undergraduate students Saiyang Zhang ’19 and Jacob Pilawa ’20. More information can be found in the