News: Awards

2021

Associate Professor Daniel Fabrycky won the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring

March 22, 2021

Dan Fabrycky has been selected as a winner of the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring. Dan will receive the prize and recognition during Convocation Weekend.


Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Awards

February 18, 2021


Joshua Frieman & Eugene Parker named Fellows of the American Astronomical Society

February 4, 2021


2020

Graduate students selected for fellowship

December 18, 2020


John Carlstrom named 2020 AAAS Fellow

November 25, 2020


James Truran awarded 2021 Hans Bethe Prize

October 8, 2020


Robert Rosner elected to presidency of the American Physical Society

September 23, 2020


PSD Spotlight: Brent Barker, Teaching Support Manager

August 24, 2020


Jared Siegel has been awarded a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award

June 15, 2020

Jared Siegel has been awarded a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award medal for his poster on supernova remnant W49B at the recently concluded 236th AAS meeting.


Prof. Paolo Privitera won a Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Award

June 9, 2020

“Finding who you are, what you do best and what you enjoy doing will bring you in the right direction—in research, and more broadly, in life,” says Prof. Paolo Privitera. “For this reason, I do not rush the students to focus on a single big project when they start working with me.”


2020 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics: Andrew Fabian, Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy

May 27, 2020

Professor Andrew Fabian from Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy has been awarded the 2020 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, one of the world's most prestigious science prizes. 


Nora Shipp has been selected to receive a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship

May 20, 2020

Nora’s dissertation research is on the discovery and modeling of Milky Way stellar streams, supervised by Alex Drlica-Wagner.


Philip Mansfield has won a 2020 Sugarman Award

May 17, 2020

Congratulations to Phil Mansfield on receiving a 2020 Sugarman Award!


Samantha Usman has been awarded a Fermilab Computational Science Internship

April 24, 2020


David Zegeye has been awarded a NSF Graduate Student Fellowship

April 24, 2020