Maggie Ju, a second-year physics PhD student, is featured in the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium’s Student Spotlight. Maggie is a recipient of a WSGC Graduate and Professional Research Fellowship and works with Professor Melinda Soares-Furtado on young variable objects (including brown dwarfs and free-floating planets!) in the Orion Nebula Cluster. She uses near-infrared time series observations from the James Webb Space Telescope. In the future, her project will also explore disk evolution using millimeter-wavelength data in collaboration with postdoctoral fellow Abygail Waggoner. Alongside her research, Maggie engages the public as an Outreach Fellow and a docent at UW–Madison’s physics museum. Read the Student Spotlight here.