Dear All – Some really great (and also totally unsurprising) news to usher in the long weekend… we just got sent a copy of a letter from the President to the Dean with the following magical words: “I am writing to indicate my acceptance of…
Exciting news: Yanqin Wu has been named a Guggenheim Fellow! As I’m sure you know, these fellowships are very prestigious and hard to get. Fellows are “Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise”, and of course that fits Yanqin perfectly. We are…
A team of researchers led by astronomers at the University of Toronto and the Dunlap Institute has recorded the earliest detection on record of a thermonuclear supernova explosion. Fig.1 A dead star explodes as a Type Ia supernovae (NASA) This research could have a…
Dr. Gwendolyn Eadie Wins 2021 Polanyi Prize in Physics Dr. Gwendolyn Eadie has been awarded the 2021 Polanyi Prize in Physics for her leadership and research in the emerging interdisciplinary field of astrostatistics. Eadie is an Assistant Professor at the David A. Dunlap Department…
Dear Astro-community,I am delighted to announce that Emily Deibert is the recipient of the departmental Fieldus award this year. Emily has demonstrated research excellence in her work on exoplanet atmospheric characterization, leading various observational programs to detect or constrain the presence of atmospheric constituents within…
It was announced on Oct 21, 2021. Prof. Renée Hložek with the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics and the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics is this year’s winner of the McLean Award which recognizes an emerging research leader at the University of…
Graduate Student Margaret Ikape Wins DKG Fellowship Award The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International has granted our grad student Margaret Ikape a World Fellowship Award for the 2021-2222 academic year. Congratulations, Margaret!
The Europlanet Society has awarded U of T Physicist Diana Valencia the 11th annual Paolo Farinella Prize. An Associate Professor of Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto (Scarborough) and Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, Valencia’s research focuses on planetary sciences, and…
Jo Bovy receives Rutherford Memorial Medal from Royal Society of Canada
New U of T Class merges Indigenous Worldviews with Astronomy Indigenous perspectives are a strong component of the study of astronomy, and now one U of T prof is helping to bring this important connection to the classroom. Hilding Neilson, Assistant…