Chair Howard Yee Announces: The 2012-13 Jui Lin Yen Award for outstanding research work carried out by a graduate student, goes to Charles Zhu for his recent article “A Parameter-Space Study of Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarf Mergers.” Congratulations, Charles!
Chair Howard Yee announces: The 2013 Fieldus Award to a graduating student for excellence in leadership and research goes to Ilana MacDonald for her excellent research into the accuracy requirements for gravitational wave forms, and her outstanding contributions to public outreach and education, especially her…
Professor Marten van Kerwijk has been named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for 2013-14, with the project “Merging white dwarfs and thermonuclear supernovae”. Congratulations, Marten!
Professor Emeritus John Percy has been elected as the Honorary President, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (2013-2017). Congratulations, John!
Professor Ray Jayawardhana, Astronomy & Astrophysics, has been selected to participate in the 2013 Arctic Circle Program, an annual expeditionary residency program which provides scientists and artists an opportunity to interact and collaborate aboard a sailing vessel in the Arctic.
Professor Peter Martin, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal – an honour created to mark the 60th anniversary of the accession to the throne of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The medals were awarded for significant contributions and…
Professor Emeritus John Percy wins the 2013 AAS Education Prize. In the congratulating notes by Chair Howard Yee, he cited the quotes from the AAS announcement for the award: The 2013 Education Prize goes to John R. Percy (University of Toronto) for more than 40 years…
UofT News reports on May 3, 2012 that Prof. Ray Jayawardhana, Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics, has been named the University of Toronto President’s Senior Advisor on Science Engagement. In this new role, Jayawardhana – or RayJay as he is widely known – will…