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…
Dear all, This morning NSERC has awarded its 2022 Brockhouse Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering to the CHIME team! Congratulations to all the students, staff, postdocs, research associates and faculty from UofT who are amongst the recipients, drawn from DADDAA, the Dunlap…
Congratulations to Professor Ue-Li Pen , who has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada!
The University of Toronto’s Professor Renée Hložek has been elected to the prestigious College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada. Congratulations!
Dr. Juan Mena-Parra joined the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, and Dunlap Institute as an Assistant Professor on September 1, 2022. Congratulations and welcome!
Former Banting-Dunlap Fellow, Dr. Josh Speagle, joined the David A Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2022. Congratulations and welcome!
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…