The Graduate Program Committee is pleased to announce their selection of the most outstanding graduate student Teaching Assistants in the department with their annual graduate teaching awards. Justin Otter is […]
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Erwin Tanin Receives International Student Prize Fellowship
Second year graduate student Erwin Tanin has been awarded an International Student Prize Fellowship by the department. Tanin is working in Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology with David Kaplan and Surjeet […]
Hsiang-Chih Hwang and Nadia Zakamska’s publication unveils discovery in the Distant Universe
Graduate student Hsiang-Chih Hwang and Associate Professor Nadia Zakamska are part of the research team that has published an article in Nature Astronomy titled “A hidden population of high-redshift double […]
Brian Camley’s New Research Shows Cells Can Walk on Microscopic Tight Ropes
The findings shed light on the behaviors of cells in certain environments and may have implications for drug research.
Bingjie Wang Receives American Astronomical Society’s Roger Doxsey Travel Prize
Graduate student Bingjie Wang has received the Roger Doxsey Travel Prize from the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in recognition of her presentation of her thesis research at the annual winter […]
Enrico Di Teodoro’s “Science” Publication Unveils A Galaxy That Ages Like No Other
Postdoctoral Fellow Enrico Di Teodoro recently published a paper in Science focusing on a galaxy in the very young Universe that unexpectedly looks like a very old galaxy. A galaxy […]
Danielle Speller’s “Nature” Publication Applies Novel Quantum Squeezing to Search for Dark Matter
The HAYSTAC team, including Assistant Professor Danielle Speller, have published a paper in Nature reporting on the use of novel new technology they have developed to increase our power to search for […]
Jared Kaplan’s Research Selected for Best Paper Award by Neural Information Processing Systems
A paper on research by Jared Kaplan and colleagues has been selected by the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) for a Best Paper Award. This is one of the most prestigious awards […]
Tim Heckman Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Tim Heckman, chair of the Department and the inaugural Dr. A. Hermann Pfund Professoris, is among 489 distinguished scholars recognized this year as fellows of the American Association for the […]
Brice Ménard and Yi-Kuan Chiang Measure the Global Warming of Galaxies
Associate Professor Brice Ménard and former postdoctoral fellow in the department, Yi-Kuan Chiang, have published research in Astrophysical Journal that demonstrates how the temperature of galaxy clusters today, on average, […]