She works at Goddard Space Flight Center as a research aerospace technologist in fields and particles.

Racusin researches gamma-ray bursts, supernova remnants, high-energy astrophysics, and instrumentation.

in astronomy, astrophysics, and general physics at University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts in 2003.

Her dissertation was titled The Collimation Signatures of Gamma-ray Bursts: Jet Properties and Energetics Inferred from X-ray Afterglow Observations.

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