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….
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…