Nicole Lee Sharp (Ruiz) is the author of Nicole Sharp’s Website. Nicole Sharp is a human (not a cat) residing in the Washington Street USA National Historic District of Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America (USA).
Nicole Sharp is currently a NASA Partner Solar Eclipse Ambassador and is active in volunteer work at local astronomy events in Maryland and West Virginia hosted by the Frostburg State University Planetarium, the Cumberland Astronomy Club, the Tri-State Astronomers of Hagerstown, the Kanawha Valley Astronomical Society, the Astronomical League, and the NASA Night Sky Network. As an amateur astronomer, Nicole Sharp’s astronomical interests have been focused on inferior and daytime astronomy (observations of Sol, Luna, Venus, and Mercury) and observations of syzygy events (eclipses, transits, occultations, oppositions, and conjunctions). Her volunteer work has included giving presentations on safe Solar observing and safe daytime observations of Venus as well as loans of personal astronomy equipment for public events. She received the NASA Observing Challenge Special Award and the Astronomical League Planetary Transit Special Award for her astronomy outreach efforts with the November 2019 Mercury Transit of Sol.
Nicole Sharp has a six-year Baccalaureate of Science (BSc) interdisciplinary degree in Liberal Studies with foci in Physics and Anthropology from Frostburg State University (FSU) of the University System of Maryland (USM). She is the recipient of both Sigma Pi Sigma (ΣΠΣ) USA National Honors in Physics and Kappa Mu Epsilon (ΚΜΕ) USA National Honors in Mathematics. Some of her former occupations include research in exotic quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at the Thomas Jefferson USA National Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (JLab CEBAF) and being elected to the office of Executive Vice President for the Young Democrats of Maryland (YDM) LGBT Caucus. Her senior thesis at Frostburg State University was an independent study in the historical anthropology of LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, intersex, asexual, et al) Appalachian Americans from prehistory to the 1960s.