2020
Philip Mansfield has won a 2020 Sugarman Award
May 17, 2020
Congratulations to Phil Mansfield on receiving a 2020 Sugarman Award!
Congratulations to Dr. Maya Fishbach
May 7, 2020
Congratulations to Maya Fishbach for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on "Astrophysics and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves" (PhD Advisor: Daniel E. Holz).
Samantha Usman has been awarded a Fermilab Computational Science Internship
April 24, 2020
Cory Cotter has been awarded a NSF Graduate Student Fellowship
April 24, 2020
Meet Astronomy & Astrophysics student Amy Tang
March 10, 2020
“Scientists seize rare chance to watch faraway star system evolve”, by Sherry Landow, Phys.org
March 4, 2020
"Finding young planets is challenging. We really need to understand the behavior of the parent star to be able to find the shallow signals of these planets which can be overwhelmed by starspots and flares," says Adina Feinstein, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Chicago and co-author of the study.
NASA’s TESS spacecraft discovers its first habitable planet, first world with two stars
January 9, 2020
NASA’s TESS spacecraft discovers its first habitable planet, first world with two stars
2019
Congratulations to Phil Mansfield
December 4, 2019
Phil Mansfield has been appoined as the James Cronin Graduate Student Fellow.
Mining historical glass slides for astronomical data
November 6, 2019
A test image from the pilot study on mining astronomical data from historical glass slides.