Emily Deibert is the recipient of the 2019 NSERC Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS). The Vanier CGS program was established in 2008 to support Canada as a global centre of excellence in research and higher learning. Its recipients demonstrate leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly…
TMT Statement As a board member of the Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy (ACURA), I have been watching closely the recent events at the construction site of the Thirty-Metre Telescope (TMT) at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and consulting with my colleagues at the University of Toronto….
Shannon Vanderwourde is the recipient of the 2019 Maurice and Christine Clement Scholarship in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Congratulations on this achievement!
The American Astronomical Society’s Division on Dynamical Astronomy (DDA)is pleased to announce that the 2019 recipient of the Vera Rubin Early Career Award is Professor Jo Bovy of the University of Toronto for his work on the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way galaxy. Professor…
It is our pleasure to congratulate Shannon Vanderwourde on being named the recipient of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
It is our pleasure to announce that Jacob Taylor is the recipient of Smith Solis Research Scholarship in Astronomy and Astrophysics, awarded to a top student in the AST425Y Research Topics in Astronomy & Astrophysics course on the basis of demonstrated excellence in the written…
The Canada Council for Arts announced that Professor Marten van Kerkwijk has won 2019 Killam Research Fellowship. This fellowship will provide Marten with two years relief from all assigned duties in the Department. The Killam is a fabulous award to a mid-career scientist that will…
Martin Award: Bryan Gaensler CASCA is pleased to announce Dr. Bryan Gaensler from the University of Toronto as the recipient of the 2019 Peter Martin award for Mid-Career Achievement. Dr. Gaensler is the Director of the Dunlap Institute at the University of Toronto, and has…
Congratulations to Dunlap Fellow Jason Hunt, who this morning has been awarded the 2018 Polanyi Prize in Physics! (Details are at http://www.dunlap.utoronto.ca/dr-jason-hunt-awarded-2018-polanyi-prize-in-physics-for-mapping-the-milky-way-galaxy/) The Polanyi Prizes recognise outstanding achievements by early career researchers at Ontario universities. Jason is the fifth UofT astronomer to win this award,…
The AAS has selected Jo Bovy to receive the Helen B. Warner Prize “for a significant early-career contribution to observational or theoretical astronomy, specifically for his contributions to our understanding of the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way and his work on forward modeling…