11/29/2018 - Globular star clusters are favorite targets for amateur sky watchers. To the naked eye they appear as fuzzy-looking stars. Through a small telescope they resolve into glittering snowball-shaped islands of innumerable stars crowded together. About 150 globular star clusters orbit our Milky Way, like...
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11/16/2018 - Yixian Cao earned her PhD on November 15, 2018. The title of her defense was "Spatially Resolved Study of Molecular Isotopologue 13CO In Nearby Galaxies". Congratulations, Yixian!
10/25/2018 - Prof. Joaquin Vieira's lab is the center of activity for the new camera at the South Pole Telescope. Read more.
10/25/2018 - Graduate student, Daniel George, successfully defended his thesis on Oct. 22, 2018. The title of his defense was "Enabling Real-time Multimessenger Astrophysics via Numerical Relativity and Deep Learning". At the end of the month, he will head to California to work at Google X....
09/26/2018 - Join the Astronomy Department at the Observatory on Friday, September 28, 2018 for an evening of conversations about the Universe and viewing the Moon and nearby planets with telescopes. This event is free and suitable for all ages.
08/29/2018 - We begin the academic year with two faculty members newly promoted. Joaquin Vieira is now an Associate Professor of Astronomy and of Physics. Tony Wong is now a Full Professor of Astronomy. Congratulations to all!
08/29/2018 - The Astronomy Department invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor appointment. For complete details Click here
08/29/2018 - Xilu Wang successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Supernovae as gamma ray emitters from the MeV to the TeV." She is moving on to a N3AS Postdoctoral Fellowship at Notre Dame and Berkeley. Congratulations Dr. Wang!
07/05/2018 - Graduate Student Daniel George has won third place in the Association for Computing Machinery Student Research Competition. Congratulations, Daniel!
07/02/2018 - Erin Cox successfully defended her PhD thesis on July 2, 2018. Congratulations, Dr. Cox!
05/16/2018 - Congratulations to the Astronomy Class of 2018! Best wishes on your future endeavors--you make us proud! A record number twenty-two Astronomy and CS+Astronomy seniors graduated on May 13, 2018 at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The 22 are: Sushma Adari, Itamar Allali, Jeffrey Bandurski,...
05/07/2018 - A second congratulations to Illinois alum Vicky Kalogera (Ph.D. 1997)! The Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor of Physics and Astronomy and the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics at Northwestern University, Vicky was elected to the...
05/03/2018 - Graduating Senior Alex Dittmann is the winner of the 2018 Wyatt Award. The Wyatt award is presented to the graduating Astronomy major or minor with the most outstanding GPA and track record of undergraduate research. Congratulations, Alex!
05/03/2018 - Vicky Kalogera (Ph.D. 1997) is the Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor of Physics and Astronomy and the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics at Northwestern University.
04/09/2018 - Every year, the University of Illinois awards six people the Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) Award. This year, Prof. and Assistant Chair Bryan Dunne was one of the winners. Congratulations, Bryan!
