Dear All, Some more very well-deserved glory for recent PhD graduate Deborah Lokhorst, who has won the 2023 ASP Trumpler Award. This award “is given each year to a recent recipient of the PhD degree in North America whose research is considered unusually important to…
Congratulations to Jo Bovy on being elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College! This is a great honour: In the words of the RSC: The College consists of mid-career leaders who provide the RSC with a multigenerational capacity to help Canada and the world…
The word is now officially out that Yanqin Wu is the winner of the 2023 CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. She is being recognized for “outstanding and impactful contributions to our understanding of the evolution of planets and planetary systems” and is the first…
Dear all, I am very pleased to announce that Taylor Kutra is the recipient of this year’s Fieldus Award. This departmental honour is awarded to a graduating student for excellence in leadership and research.Taylor has done excellent research on planet formation during her PhD, combining observational…
Dear all, It’s our pleasure to announce that Yuyang Chen is this year’s recipient of the Jui Lin (Allen) Yen Award for outstanding research contribution, specifically for the two-paper series: Late-Time HST Observations of AT 2018cow I: Further Constraints on the Fading Prompt Emission and…
Professor Valencia recently won the 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship in Astronomy & Astrophysics, a prestigious award that about 3,000 researchers, scholars and artists apply to each year, and only about 175 win. The fellowship financially supports projects in any field so long as they aim to create…
CASCA is pleased to announce Dr. Deborah Lokhorst as the recipient of the 2023 J.S. Plaskett Medal for the most outstanding doctoral thesis in astronomy or astrophysics. Dr. Lokhorst received her PhD in 2022 under the supervision of Dr. Roberto Abraham at the University of…
By: Meaghan MacSween, Communications and Multimedia Officer, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics Astronomer Maria Drout Wins Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship University of Toronto Assistant Professor Maria Drout has been awarded a 2023 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics for her contribution to our…
Dear all, We’re thrilled to report that Josh Speagle has been named the winner of the Polanyi Prize for Physics for 2022! The Polanyi Prizes are awarded annually to outstanding early-career researchers by the Ontario Council of Universities. They are named in honour of 1986…
WELCOME to Adam Muzzin! Adam is a Professor at York University and will be spending a year with us on sabbatical. His timing is exquisite since Adam is the world’s leading expert on galaxy mass functions and he is heavily involved in JWST. Adam’s website…