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Incoming Assistant Professor Blakesley Burkhart has received the 2019 Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy from the American Astronomical Society.
Assistant Professor Alyson Brooks is the 2019 recipient of the Maria Goeppert Mayer Award of the American Physical Society.
Professor Eric Gawiser has been named a 2018 Fellow of the American Physical Society for "exceptional leadership in the study of galaxy evolution and cosmology."
Professor Saurabh Jha has received the 2018 School of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education at the Full Professor rank.
Elaad Applebaum, working with Assistant Professor Alyson Brooks, has been awarded a Blue Waters Fellowship from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications to be held during the 2018-19 academic year.
Professor Eric Gawiser was named Deputy Spokesperson of the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration for a two-year term beginning July 1, 2017.
Humna Awan, working with Professor Eric Gawiser, has won an inaugural Fellowship of Excellence In Computational and Data Science to be held during the 2017-18 academic year.
Graduate student Jesse Rivera participated in the 2017 Congressional Visit Day. His account of the day was posted by the American Astronomical Society.
Assistant Professor Alyson Brooks has received the 2017 School of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education at the Assistant Professor rank.
Assistant Professor Alyson Brooks has been named as a 2015 Sloan Fellow with a grant to support her work on galaxy formation.
Associate Professor Saurabh Jha has shared the 2015 Breaktrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, for his role in the Supernova Cosmology collaboration.
Physics Seminars are held at 1:30 pm on Thursdays in room 401. Department colloquia are at 11:00 AM on Wednesdays in the Physics Lecture Hall.
Public open nights at the Robert A. Schommer Astronomical Observatory are held on the second, third, and fourth Thursday of every month, weather permitting.