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Congratulations to Prof. Blakesley Burkhart on being awarded the Maria Goeppert Mayer Award!
(October 2021)
Postdoctoral Fellow Yao-Yuan Mao will start as an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah in the summer of 2022. Congratulations to Yao on the new faculty position!
(September 2021)
Prof. Geraldine Cochran has been promoted to Associate Professor of Practice. Congratulations on the promotion!
(September 2021)
At the summer AAS meeting, Graduate Student Charlotte Olsen received a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award and Undergraduate Student Avery Kiihne received a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award Honorable Mention. Both were awarded for their presentations of research on star formation histories. Congratulations to Charlotte and Avery for their amazing work!
(June 2021)
Graduate Student Sabrina M. Appel has been awarded the Peter Lindenfeld Graduate Fellowship for the 2021-2022 Academic Year.
(May 2021)
Prof. Kristy McQuinn and Prof. Alyson Brooks are on one of the JWST Early Release Science teams. These teams will be among the first users of JWST.
(February 2021)
Congratulations to Prof. Blakesley Burkhart for being named a 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow!
(February 2021)
Prof. Blakesley Burkhart has been named a 2020 Packard Fellow. Congratulations!
(October 2020)
Congratulations to Humna Awan for receiving the Harvey Waterman Medal of Excellence from the Rutgers School of Graduate Studies for her Ph.D. Her thesis is titled "Probing Dark Energy with Large Galaxy Surveys: Systematics & Mitigation," and was advised by Prof. Eric Gawiser. This award is the second-highest award given to a graduate student at the entire university!
(September 2020)
Congratulations to Prof. Jolie Cizewski for being awarded the 2020 American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics Mentoring Award!
(September 2020)
Congratulations to Prof. Geraldine Cochran for being elected a 2020 APS Fellow!
(September 2020)
Prof. Eva Andrei has been named a new investigator in the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS) initiative of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation!
(June 2020)
Congratulations to graduate student Angela Coe for being to selected to attend the 2020 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting! Angela works with Prof. Eva Andrei.
(March 2020)