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…
U of T Assistant Professor Wins AAS Annie Jump Cannon Award University of Toronto Assistant Professor Marta Bryan has won the 2023 American Astronomical Society’s Annie Jump Cannon Award, for her “leadership in observational studies of gas-giant exoplanet formation, evolution, and impact on planetary systems.”…
Professor Roberto Abraham wins the 2023 Jackson-Gwilt Medal This links to a document Roberto Abraham and the Dragonfly Telephoto Array. Credit: Pieter van Dokkum. University of Toronto Astronomy Professor Roberto Abraham has won the 2023 Jackson-Gwilt Medal for his innovative work on the Dragonfly Telephoto Array….
Dear Astro-community, I am delighted to announce that Aaron Tohuvavohu is the recipient of a prestigious Vanier award this year, in recognition of his outstanding PhD work on the The Little UV Space (LUVS) Telescope. The official announcement can be found here: …
Congratulations to Jennifer West, who is not just a UofT astronomer, but is also now an asteroid! The IAU citation: (10494) Jenniferwest = 1986 QO3 Discovery: 1986-08-29 / H. Debehogne / La Silla / 809 Jennifer West (b. 1979) earned her PhD in…