Hi all, It’s my pleasure to announce that this year we have two winners of the Jui Lin (Allen) Yen Award for outstanding research contribution. We’re honoring Sam Berek for her paper Should Zeros Count? Modeling the Galaxy–Globular Cluster Scaling Relation with(out) Zero-inflated Count Models. In this paper, she…
Dear all, I am very pleased to announce that Bethany Ludwig is the recipient of this year’s Fieldus Award. This departmental honour is awarded to a graduating student for excellence in leadership and research and comes with a $1,500 award. Bethany has performed excellent research…
CASCA is pleased to announce Dr. Laurie Rousseau-Nepton as the winner of the 2024 Qilak award, recognizing recent and impactful outreach activities. Dr. Rousseau-Nepton received her PhD from Université Laval, and following a Resident Astronomer position at the Canada France Hawai’i Telescope, joined the faculty…
CASCA is pleased to announce that Dr. Roberto Abraham and the Dragonfly team are the winners of the 2024 Dunlap Award. This award recognises a decade of innovation and effort on the part of Dr. Abraham and the Dragonfly team, who have designed, constructed,…
Professor Yanqin Wu has been elected an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Earth Sciences. The official info is here: https://www.amacad.org/new-members-2024 Congratulations, Yanqin!
Professor Ray Carlberg has been selected as a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society, which honors members for extraordinary achievement and service. The citation from the committee reads as follows: “For major contributions to observational cosmological measurements of clusters of galaxies at intermediate redshift, the…
Professor Maria Drout was awarded the 2024 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize by the American Astronomical Society (AAS). The 2024 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, which is awarded for outstanding achievement in observational astronomical research based on measurements of radiation from an astronomical object, goes to Maria…
UofT Agenda Committee of Academic Board has approved the appointment of Professor Suresh Sivanandam as Director of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics effective January 1, 2024, until June 30, 2029. Congratulations!
Professor Ting Li is the recipient of the 2023 Dorothy Shoichet Women Faculty in Science Award of Excellence! You can read all about it here: https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/two-exemplary-arts-science-researchers-awarded-2023-dorothy-shoichet-women-faculty-science HUGE CONGRATULATIONS, Ting! The Astro-Execs
New this year, we are offering a Dunlap Graduate Fellowship in Instrumentation (generously sponsored by the Dunlap Institute) to an incoming PhD student who will work on a PhD project in lab-based instrumentation. Students are asked to indicate their interest in this fellowship in their research statement….