News from the Department
- Apr 2012: Department volunteers entertain and enlighten public at Maryland Day
- Apr 2012: JSI mini-symposium on May 11 on counterparts to gravity wave sources
- Apr 2012: Grad students strut their stuff, win prizes in GRID research competition
- Apr 2012: Grad student Jessica Donaldson wins a Summer Research Fellowship
- Apr 2012: Dr. Conor Nixon receives Goddard Science Award for work on Titan
- Apr 2012: Team led by Dr. Dennis Bodewits monitors pristine Comet Garradd
- Apr 2012: Grad student Hao Gong wins Wylie Fellowship for protostellar core work
- Apr 2012: Prof. Doug Hamilton to speak on Pluto's moons for Apr. 14 "Planet Walk"
- Apr 2012: Dr. Francesco Tombesi finds ultra-fast outflows from galactic black holes
- Mar 2012: New images from Dawn reveal ancient material on Vesta's surface
- Mar 2012: Undergrad Harley Katz awarded prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
- Mar 2012: Dr. Neil Gehrels receives COSPAR's 2012 Massey Award
- Mar 2012: JSI mini-symposium on Apr. 6 on plasma physics & particle acceleration
- Mar 2012: June 4-6 conference: "Energetic Astronomy - Richard Mushotzky at 65"
- Mar 2012: Prof. Dennis Papadopoulos' MURI project helps to protect satellites
- Feb 2012: Elizabeth Warner interviewed by Channel 9 about the leap year
- Feb 2012: JSI mini-symposium on Feb. 17 on accretion astrophysics
- Jan 2012: Dr. Melissa Hayes-Gehrke selected as a 2011-12 CTE Lilly Fellow
- Jan 2012: Grad student Alice Olmstead wins AAS Chambliss Student Award
- Dec 2011: Department hosts NRAO Community Day on Thursday, Dec. 15
- Nov 2011: Drs. Dennis Bodewits and Stefan Immler study asteroid's close passage
- Oct 2011: Prof. Chris Reynolds receives UMD/Smithsonian Institution Seed Grant
- Oct 2011: UMD-Goddard CRESST Interaction Day on Friday, Nov. 18, 1-5pm
- Oct 2011: JSI mini-symposium on Nov. 4 on accretion and particle acceleration
- Sept 2011: Dr. Meg Urry presents ADVANCE lecture on women in science
- Sept 2011: Talk about M101 supernova by Dr. Peter Nugent draws a large crowd
- Sept 2011: JSI mini-symposium on Sept. 16 reviewed current research projects
- Sept 2011: Undergrad Steffi Yen wins the College Park Scholars' Shapiro Award
- Aug 2011: Dr. Marc Pound featured on UMD Senate website for his service
- Aug 2011: Ashley Zauderer and Shaye Storm detect a black hole consuming a star
- Aug 2011: JSI workshop on "Near Field Cosmology" in Annapolis, Nov. 29-Dec. 1
- July 2011: Grad students Edmund Hodges-Kluck and Mike Koss defend dissertations
- July 2011: Prof. Alberto Bolatto finds massive amounts of water in quasar spectrum
- July 2011: EPOXI teams and Dr. Dennis Wellnitz win NASA awards
- July 2011: Undergrad Brett Morris makes UMD obseratory's 1st exoplanet detection
- July 2011: Prof. Doug Hamilton co-leader of team discovering Pluto's fourth moon
- July 2011: Drake Deming and Jessica Sunshine join our professorial faculty
- July 2011: Professors Pat Harrington and Mike A'Hearn retire
- June 2011: Prof. Dennis Papadopoulos' work featured as a "Research Spotlight"
- June 2011: Prof. Richard Mushotzky to receive NASA's Distinguished Service Medal
- June 2011: UMD-led EPOXI science team publishes latest comet findings in Science
- June 2011: New video of asteroid Vesta from Dawn space probe reveals dark spot
- June 2011: Grad student Mike Koss discovers binary supermassive black holes
- June 2011: Lauren Woolsey wins Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship and Physics thesis prize
- May 2011: Grad student Kari Helgason wins NASA Earth & Space Science Fellowship
- May 2011: Dr. Jessica Sunshine's CHopper proposal makes NASA mission shortlist
- May 2011: Small Bodies Group studies rare asteroid collision with Swift satellite
- Apr 2011: Dr. Surja Sharma wins CMNS Distinguished Research Scientist Prize
- Apr 2011: Grad students Chen and Helgason win Summer Research Fellowships
- Apr 2011: Grad student Mike McDonald wins CMNS Outstanding Grad Student Award
- Apr 2011: Alumnus Paul Butler '93 elected to Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Apr 2011: CRESST agreement with NASA/Goddard extended through 2016
- Apr 2011: MaryAnn Phillips, Susan Lehr, and Chris Reynolds receive college awards
- Apr 2011: Breakthrough simulation confirms cause of short gamma-ray bursts
- Apr 2011: Undergrad Brian Holler chosen as a 2011-12 Merrill Presidential Scholar
- Apr 2011: KwangHo Park and Rodrigo Camus Herrera winners in GRID competition
- Mar 2011: Dr. Melissa Hayes-Gehrke's I-Series course featured in CTE newsletter
- Mar 2011: Department hosts Planetary Decadal Survey meeting on Mar. 25, 3pm
- Feb 2011: Prof. Sylvain Veilleux discovers 'smoking gun' for quasar extinction
- Feb 2011: Prof. Stacy McGaugh tests alternative gravity theory MOND
- Feb 2011: Grad student Megan DeCesar discovers two new millisecond pulsars
- Feb 2011: Inaugural JSI mini-symposium Feb. 25 on "Millisecond Pulsars"
- Feb 2011: First light from new CARMA correlator
- Feb 2011: Prof. Alberto Bolatto receives 2010 Cottrell Scholar Award
- Jan 2011: Grace Deming wins the 2011 AAS Education Prize
- Jan 2011: Astronomy mourns the loss of one of its undergraduates
- Dec 2010: CARMA Science Symposium Feb. 28-Mar. 1, 2011 at U.C. Berkeley
- Nov 2010: Prof. Andy Harris' spectrometer identifies galaxies from early Universe
- Nov 2010: EPOXI/Deep Impact makes closest approach to Comet Hartley 2
- Nov 2010: Deep Impact uses planet colors to predict appearance of alien Earths
- Nov 2010: "The Ins and Outs of Black Holes" conference, Nov. 15-17
- Oct 2010: Dr. Drake Deming and Dr. Jessica Sunshine to be hired as full Professors
- Oct 2010: Emeritus Professor Bill Rose passes away at age 75
- Sept 2010: Natsuha Kuroda and Albert Wavering win College Park Scholars awards
- Sept 2010: Profs. McGaugh, C. Miller, and N. Miller lead public panel on 'Origins'
- Aug 2010: Joint Ph.D. program with Pontificia Universidad Católica in Chile approved
- Aug 2010: Prof. Richard Mushotzky wins Goddard Award of Merit
- Aug 2010: Prof. Alberto Bolatto receives NSF CAREER award
- June 2010: Alumnus Charles Bennett awarded 2010 Shaw Prize for WMAP work
- June 2010: CARMA open house in California a popular attraction
- June 2010: Professor Emeritus Mukul Kundu passes away at age of 80
- May 2010: Grad student Mike Koss leads SWIFT study of black hole activation
- May 2010: Groundbreaking ceremony for Physical Sciences Complex on May 24
- May 2010: University’s observatory impresses, educates
- May 2010: Prof. Richard Mushotzky to give Israel Pollak Distinguished Lecture
- Apr 2010: Alumna Stefi Baum '87 receives 2010 Distinguished Alumna Award
- Apr 2010: Undergrads shine at College Park Scholars Academic Showcase
- Apr 2010: Dr. Neil Gehrels elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- Apr 2010: Mia Bovill wins CMPS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
- Apr 2010: Prof. Harris and Dr. Hainline publish high-z starbirth study in Nature
- Mar 2010: "Advances in Theoretical and Observational Cosmology" workshop
- Mar 2010: Astronomy Department participates in 2010 Girl Scout Day
- Mar 2010: Prof. Doug Hamilton wins UMD Regents' Award for Scholarship
- Mar 2010: Drs. Jianyang Li and Neal Miller promoted
- Mar 2010: Jen Miller discovers new planetary nebula
- Mar 2010: UM and NASA/Goddard launch the Joint Space Science Institute (JSI)
- Feb 2010: Prof. Alberto Bolatto's studies of early galaxies highlighted in Nature
- Feb 2010: Alumnus Jim Ulvestad '81 appointed as NSF division director
- Jan 2010: Prof. Mike A'Hearn helps produce NRC report "Defending Planet Earth"
- Jan 2010: Whistler waves paper makes front cover of "Physics of Plasmas"
- Jan 2010: HS students Curley and Wu are regional finalists in Siemens Competition
- Jan 2010: Alumnus Jeff Newman '94 receives DoE Early Career Award
- Jan 2010: Dr. Drake Deming is awarded the AAS Tinsley Prize
- Jan 2010: Dr. Lori Feaga receives NASA Early Career Fellowship
- Jan 2010: Prof. Stacy McGaugh reveals trends in galaxies' dark matter content
- Dec 2009: Dr. Surja Sharma to give Lorenz Lecture at AGU meeting
- Nov 2009: Prof. Richard Mushotzky finds evidence for a ‘middleweight’ black hole
- Oct 2009: Prof. Doug Hamilton discovers giant new Saturn ring
- Oct 2009: Dr. Peter Teuben and students star in "The Universe" episode
- Sept 2009: EPOXI scientists confirm water on the Moon's surface
- Sept 2009: Undergrad Val Klavans wins Shapiro Undergraduate Research Award
- Sept 2009: Undergrad Erin Grand produces best-ever UV view of Andromeda Galaxy
- July 2009: "Women in Astronomy" meeting Oct. 21-23, 2009
- June 2009: Dawn Science Team receives the NASA Group Achievement Award
- June 2009: Dr. Richard Mushotzky joins the department
- Apr 2009: Prof. Eve Ostriker selected as a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow
- Feb 2009: Prof. Derek Richardson's asteroid work is a "Top 10" astronomy story
- Feb 2009: Graduate students La Vigne and Winter poised for success
- Jan 2009: Adjunct Professor Neil Gehrels awarded Henry Draper medal
- Jan 2009: Postdoc Tamara Bogdanovic awarded Einstein Fellowship
- Dec 2008: Dr. Rosemary Killen discusses Mercury's exosphere at AGU
- Nov 2008: Prof. Sylvain Veilleux has won a Humboldt Research Award
- Oct 2008: Undergrad James Keane wins prize for best CPS research project
- Oct 2008: Dr. Lucy McFadden edits award-winning encyclopedia
UM Newsdesk: Astronomy
- 13-Apr 2012: UMD Team Monitors Pristine Comet Garradd To Watch It Twice Cross 'Snow Line'
- 22-Jul 2011: Astronomers Discover Universe's Largest and Earliest Mass of Water
- 28-Jun 2011: Nearby Galaxy Boasts Two Monster Black Holes, Both Active
- 16-Jun 2011: UMD-Led EPOXI Science Team Publishes Latest Comet Findings in Science
- 11-May 2011: Comet Hopper, a UMD/NASA Goddard Proposal, Moves to 'Final Round' in NASA Selection Processe
- 28-Apr 2011: UMD and UCLA-Led Teams Study Asteroid Collision With Swift and Hubble Telescopes
- 8-Apr 2011: Breakthrough Study Confirms Cause of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts
- 23-Feb 2011: Quasar's Belch Solves Longstanding Mystery
- 22-Feb 2011: Gas Rich Galaxies Confirm Modified Gravity Prediction
- 18-Nov 2010: Spacecraft Flew Through 'Snowstorm' on Encounter with Comet Hartley 2
- 10-Nov 2010: Primordial Dry Ice Fuels Comet Jets
- 4-Nov 2010: UMD Leads Deep Impact Spacecraft on Successful Flyby of Comet Hartley 2
- 3-Nov 2010: University of Maryland, Leading Chilean University Create Joint Ph.D. Program
- 2-Nov 2010: UMD-Led Mission Films Jets of Material Coming from Comet
- 8-Sep 2010: UMD-Led Team Begins Imaging Comet Hartley 2 with Deep Impact Spacecraft
- 21-Jul 2010: Black Hole's Spin Moves Probably Result of Galactic Collision
- 25-Jun 2010: Deep Impact Spacecraft to Make Last Swing by Earth on Way to 2nd Comet
- 12-May 2010: Stargazing 101: University’s Observatory Impresses, Educates
- 28-Apr 2010: UM Faculty among Scientists Newly Elected to U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- 5-Mar 2010: UM and NASA-Goddard Create Space Science Institute and Sign Broad Agreement
- 6-Jan 2010: UM-Led Team Shines Cosmic Light on Missing Ordinary Matter
- 7-Oct 2009: Scientists Discover Huge, Nearly Invisible Ring Around Saturn
- 24-Sep 2009: Deep Impact and Other Spacecraft Find Clear Evidence of Water on Moon
- 14-Oct 2008: UM Astronomer Michael A'Hearn Awarded Kuiper Prize
- 17-Jul 2008: UM-Led Deep Impact Films Earth as Alien World
- 9-Jul 2008: Study Puts Solar Spin on Asteroids, their Moons & Earth Impacts
- 19-May 2008: Small Star Gets Swift Reaction with Unprecedented Flare
- 30-Apr 2008: Scientists Find Rings of Jupiter Are Shaped in Shadow
- 20-Mar 2008: Maryland Led Team Finds Oldest Known Asteroids
- 31-Dec 2007: Deep Impact Team 'Celebrates' New Year's Eve with Earth Flyby
- 13-Dec 2007: Deep Impact Extended Mission Heads for Comet Hartley 2
- 26-Jun 2007: Dawn Mission Scientist Available to Media
- 30-May 2007: Why Are Galaxies without Black Holes Uncommon?
The Answer is Spin Alignment, Say UM researchers
- 29-May 2007: Spin of Supermassive Black Holes Measured for First Time
- 10-Apr 2007: Maryland Astronomers Crack 45-Year-Old Mystery
- 30-Oct 2006: UM Proposal for Deep Impact Extended Mission Clears Major Hurdle
- 27-Sep 2006: UM, UMBC and USRA Join Forces with NASA to Create Center for Space Science and Technology
- 25-Aug 2006: UM Astronomers Comment on Pluto's Demotion to "Dwarf Planet"
- 4-May 2006: Powerful CARMA Brings Cool, Far Out Astrophysics More in Focus
- 24-Apr 2006: Quiet, Old Black Holes Actually Rumble with Roar of Particle Jets
- 20-Apr 2006: Daughters of Deep Impact: UM Proposed Missions Could Clear Clouded Comet Picture
- 2-Feb 2006: Ice Exists on Surface of Comet, But Most Lies Deeper
- 21-Dec 2005: "Space Picture of the Year!" Vote for UM-Led Deep Impact
- 16-Nov 2005: UM and Goddard Host 4-Day Meeting on Gamma-ray Astronomy
- 8-Nov 2005: Maryland-Led Deep Impact Wins Major Space Award
- 6-Sep 2005: New Deep Impact Results Add 'Color' to Unfolding Comet Picture
- 22-Aug 2005: Deep Impact Mission Update August 05
- 4-Jul 2005: UM-Led Comet Mission Is a Hit!
- 1-Jul 2005: Maryland-Led Comet Mission Prepares for Impact
- 29-Jun 2005: Maryland-Led Deep Impact: Local Media Opportunities
- 28-Jun 2005: UM-Led Deep Impact Observes Huge Comet Outburst
- 21-Jun 2005: Maryland-Led Deep Impact Detects Comet Nucleus
- 2-Jun 2005: Space Telescopes Sharpen View of Deep Impact Target
- 13-Jan 2005: Deep Impact Mission Launched Toward Comet
- 6-Jan 2005: Maryland-Led Comet Mission Almost Ready for Launch
- 11-Oct 2004: UM: Making a Deep Impact on Space Exploration
- 1-Jul 2004: UM-Built Sensor on Cassini Begins to Shed Light on Saturn's Magnetosphere
- 4-Jun 2004: UM Viewing of First Transit of Venus in 122 Years
- 5-May 2004: Maryland's Grads Have Nothing To Fear
- 14-Jan 2004: Solar System Exploration Experts
- 16-Dec 2003: These Maryland Grads Are At The Top Of Their Class
- 10-Dec 2003: Maryland Grads Face The Future With Terrapin Pride
- 20-Nov 2003: Galactic Winds Blow Away Idea of 'Island Universe'
- 27-Aug 2003: UM Expert/Photo Op: Close Encounter with Mars
- 22-May 2003: UM Students Winning More National Scholarships
- 8-May 2003: Put Your Name On a Speeding Comet
- 2-Jul 2002: High-Energy Activity Heats Up the Whirlpool
- 8-Feb 2002: Maryland Led Project Takes Big Step Toward 2005 Comet Collision
- 7-Jan 2002: New Evidence Indicates Large Black Holes May Lurk in Star Clusters
- 22-Oct 2001: Newest X-Ray Telescope Detects Evidence of Energy Escaping from Massive Black Hole
- 25-May 2001: NASA Gives Go Ahead for Building of 'Deep Impact' Spacecraft
- 19-Apr 2001: UM Scholars Student Headed to NASA For Prestigious Summer Program
- 30-Mar 2001: UM Named One of 16 Sites Nationwide For "Teacher as Scholars" Program
- 7-Dec 2000: Almost 4,000 Candidates for December Commencement
- 6-Nov 2000: Catching a Galactic Football: Chandra Examines Cygnus A
- 27-Sep 2000: Accuracy of Astronomer's Predictions Challenges Accepted View of Universe
- 6-Jun 2000: Spectacular X-Ray Jet Points Toward Cosmic Particle Accelerator
- 4-Apr 2000: NASA Astronaut Lands at the University of Maryland--Space communicator speaks to students
- 4-Feb 2000: Spacecraft and Asteroid Rendezvous on Valentine's Day
- 18-Jan 2000: Lunar Eclipse on View Thursday, January 20, 2000
- 14-Sep 1999: Whiting-Turner Honors Long-Time Executive With Endowed Chair at University of Maryland
- 9-Sep 1999: Proposed Cuts in NASA Funding Would Stop Key Science and Technology Research
- 1-Sep 1999: Stephen Halperin Named Dean of College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
- 7-Jul 1999: 'Deep Impact' - a UM-Led Mission to Excavate and Study a Comet's Nucleus - Wins NASA Approval
- 7-Jan 1998: Energy Cycle Makes ETA CARINAE The Brightest Radio Star in the Sky
