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News from the Department

• Apr 2020: NSF Graduate Fellowship Awarded to Astronomy student Caleb Harada
• Mar 2020: Researchers Seek the Axion Particle Using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory
• Feb 2020: Generous Gift Seeds the Mike A'Hearn Endowed Lectureship in Planetary Astronomy
• Feb 2020: First AAS Fellows Announced
• Jan 2020: First Asteroid Found Inside Orbit of Venus
• Jan 2020: Tidal Disruption Events: When a Star Comes too Close to a Black Hole
• Jan 2020: Astronomers Spot Distant Galaxy Group Driving Ancient Cosmic Makeover
• Dec 2019: Researchers Map Hotspots of Pulsar Using Supercomputer Deepthought2
• Dec 2019: Astronomers Propose a New Technique for Identifying Atmospheres of Rocky Exoplanets
• Dec 2019: UMD Astronomers Catch a Natural Comet Outburst in Unprecedented Detail
• Dec 2019: First interstellar comet may soon break apart as it nears the Sun
• Oct 2019: NASA's Webb to Unlock the Mysteries of Comets and the Early Solar System
• Aug 2019: UMD-led Study Captures Six Galaxies Undergoing Sudden, Dramatic Transitions
• Aug 2019: Research Gives New Insight into How Much Atmosphere Mars Lost
• Aug 2019: Astronomers Struck Gold in Distant Stellar Collision
• Aug 2019: UMD Astronomer Suvi Gezari Named Kavli Foundation Plenary Lecturer
• Aug 2019: Distant "Heavy Metal" Gas Planet is Shaped Like a Football
• Aug 2019: 'TERMINATORS' ON THE SUN TRIGGER PLASMA TSUNAMIS
• Jul 2019: The natural history of 'Oumuamua
• Jul 2019: Derek Richardson Named 2019 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
• Mar 2019: The Past, Present and Future of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
• Mar 2019: How Ultima Thule Is Like a Sticky, Pull-Apart Pastry
• Feb 2019: UMD astronomers contribute to a wealth of discoveries facilitated by ZTF
• Jan 2019: Astronomers Map 'Light Echoes' of Newly Discovered Black Hole
• Nov 2018: Astronomers Find Pairs of Black Holes at the Centers of Merging Galaxies
• Oct 2018: 'Pulsar in a Box' Reveals Surprising Picture of a Neutron Star's Surroundings
• Oct 2018: NASA's Fermi Mission Energizes the Sky with Gamma-ray Constellations
• Oct 2018: Kin of Gravitational Wave Source Discovered
• Aug 2018: Eliza Kempton Co-authors NASA Report Calling for Mission to Study Exoplanets
• Aug 2018: First interplanetary CubeSat mission, MarCO, is only the beginning
• Aug 2018: Star-Swallowing Black Holes Reveal Secrets in Exotic Light Shows
• Aug 2018: UMD Grad Students Receive 2018 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships
• Jul 2018: CAESAR Launches New Website
• Jun 2018: UMD-led Study Shows How Earth Slows the Solar Wind to a Gentle Breeze
• May 2018: UMD Astronomers Install All-sky Cameras on Campus and in Haiti
• May 2018: College's Alumni Network Announces 2018 Summer Undergraduate Award Winners
• May 2018: Astronomy Undergrads Recognized in Physics UG Research Showcase
• May 2018: University Medal Awarded to Physics and Astronomy Senior Christopher Bambic
• May 2018: Rubber-Ducky Comets May Have Taken a Violent Beating
• May 2018: Professor Drake Deming Discusses Breakthrough in Exoplanetary Research
• May 2018: Associate Research Scientist Li-Jen Chen wins Dean's Award
• Apr 2018: Maryland Day Astronomy Station a Big Success!
• Apr 2018: NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Awarded to Nine CMNS Students
• Mar 2018: Charles Goodrich, former Senior Research Scientist, passes away
• Mar 2018: SCIENCE ON TAP: Hungry Black Holes
• Feb 2018: Two UMD Science Majors Win Prestigious Churchill Scholarships
• Feb 2018: University of Maryland to Have Key Role in Possible NASA Comet Mission
• Feb 2018: Dr. Eleonora Troja Awarded the Italian Bilateral Scientific Award by the MAECI
• Jan 2018: Three types of extreme-energy space particles may have unified origin
• Jan 2018: UMD Astronomers Measure most Rapid Slowing of Comet's Rotation ever Witnessed
• Jan 2018: Zwicky Transient Facility Sees "First Light"
• Jan 2018: John Mulchaey and Yixian Zheng Named Interim Carnegie Institution Co-Presidents
• Dec 2017: NSF announces James Ulvestad as Chief Officer for Research Facilities
• Dec 2017: The Geminids light up the sky and provide big research opportunities
• Dec 2017: Astronomers produce most detailed map ever of galaxy orbits in supercluster
• Dec 2017: WASP-18b Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water
• Dec 2017: An orbital dance may help preserve oceans on icy worlds
• Nov 2017: Hitomi mission glimpses cosmic 'recipe' for the nearby universe
• Nov 2017: Projects developed by UMD research scientists selected for JWST DD-ERS
• Oct 2017: UMD Scientists Win Research of the Aspen Institute Italia Award 2017
• Oct 2017: Neutron Star Merger Directly Observed for First Time by UMD Research Scientists
• Oct 2017: Research Scientist, A. Surjalal Sharma, elected Fellow of the APS
• Oct 2017: Astro 315 (SP 2017) student papers featured in Minor Planet Bulletin
• Oct 2017: Astro student, Junellie Quiles, helps lead relief efforts on campus for Puerto Rico
• Sep 2017: Active galactic nuclei models upended by new observations
• Sep 2017: Congratulations to all the faculty members who were recently promoted!
• Sep 2017: Research scientist Haihong Che wins first Renè Pellat Memorial Prize
• Sep 2017: Ultrahot exoplanet has signatures of a stratosphere
• Sep 2017: JSI Conference on Cosmic Accelerators held on November 6-9, 2017
• Aug 2017: Dr. Eleonora Troja awarded observing time on Chandra and Hubble
• Aug 2017: Solar eclipse event at University of Maryland a huge success!
• Aug 2017: Graduate student, Amy Steele, participates in solar eclipse expedition in Salem
• Aug 2017: UMD Research Scientists granted Chandra and Hubble telescope time
• Jul 2017: Gamma-ray Burst Captured in Unprecedented Detail
• Jun 2017: Dr. Andrew Harris serves as new chair of the astronomy department
• Jun 2017: Dr. Hayes-Gehrke featured in The Chronicle on active-learning classrooms
• Jun 2017: Chris Bambic selected as a 2017-2018 Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar
• Jun 2017: Thomas Rimlinger receives 2017 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
• Jun 2017: Alumna Lisa Mazzuca (Ph.D. '06) a finalist for prestigious award
• May 2017: Dr. Eleonora Troja receives Young Scientist Award from the ICS
• May 2017: Michael A'Hearn, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, passes away
• Apr 2017: Asteroid named after Dr. Dennis Bodewits
• Apr 2017: NASA video showcases 3 comets on close-approaches to Earth
• Apr 2017: Department volunteers entertain & enlighten public at Maryland Day
• Apr 2017: Hayes-Gehrke, Smith, and Gezari honored by CMNS BOV awards
• Apr 2017: NASA selects proposed AXIS space mission concept
• Apr 2017: Amy Steele wins Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship
• Apr 2017: Dana Louie wins EAPSI Fellowship
• Mar 2017: Valeria Cottini's project accepted to PSDS3 program
• Mar 2017: Small Bodies Group studies comet through Las Cumbres collaboration
• Mar 2017: Chris Bambic wins Goldwater Scholarship
• Mar 2017: UMD wins CRESST II Cooperative Agreement from NASA
• Mar 2017: Emily Garhart wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
• Mar 2017: Arnab Dhabal wins Wylie Dissertation Fellowship
• Mar 2017: ESPRESSO team to study risks for space missions to solar system bodies
• Mar 2017: A'Hearn and Bodewits co-author Science paper on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
• Mar 2017: Mar. 20-24 ELS-XVI conference on dust scattering
• Mar 2017: Shreya Anand & Chris Bambic win Honors College Research Grants
• Mar 2017: Mahmuda Afrin Badhan wins grant to 2017 AbSciCon
• Mar 2017: Tombesi co-authors Nature Astronomy paper on black hole winds
• Mar 2017: Reynolds, King, Kara, & Lohfink's black hole paper in Nature
• Feb 2017: Prof. Cole Miller comments on Space.com discussing black hole discovery
• Feb 2017: College Park Professor Neil Gehrels passes away
• Feb 2017: Asst. Prof. Suvi Gezari's paper highlighted on AAS Nova
• Jan 2017: Prof. A'Hearn quoted in 'Science' article about Lucy & Psyche missions
• Dec 2016: GRAD-MAP & diversity successes as told by Ashlee Wilkins
• Dec 2016: Dr. Hamilton's research on Pluto's heart makes #1 news of 2016
• Nov 2016: Rosetta gives new insights into comet 67P's coma
• Nov 2016: Emily Garhart receives Thomas R. McGetchin Memorial Scholarship Award
• Nov 2016: Prof. Hamilton's new model explains the moon's weird orbit
• Oct 2016: Krista Smith featured in NASA press release on 'pumpkin stars'
• Oct 2016: Prof. Suvi Gezari earns CMNS Board of Visitors Junior Faculty Award
• Oct 2016: Earth's magnetospheric bow shock exhibits ripples
• Oct 2016: Paper on comet C/2015 D1's demise highlighted by AAS Journals
• Sep 2016: A'Hearn & Bodewits contribute to Rosetta study of comet outbursts
• Sep 2016: Livengood & A'Hearn featured in "Between the Columns"
• Sep 2016: Pradip Gatkine wins "best student presentation" at SPIE conference
• Sep 2016: Ludmilla Kolokolova publishes Rosetta commentary in Nature
• Aug 2016: JSI Conference to be held November 9-11th
• Aug 2016: Alan Peel selected for the 2016 Undergraduate Studies Faculty Fellows
• Aug 2016: Congratulations to professional-track faculty who received promotions
• Jul 2016: Eleanora Troja and team featured in Chandra press release
• Jun 2016: Erin Kara and Chris Reynolds paper published in Nature
• Jun 2016: Marc Pound has won the campus Professional Track Faculty Prize
• Jun 2016: Gabrielle Betancourt-Martinez earns 1st place in 3MT competition
• Jun 2016: Xi Shao receives NOAA's STAR award
• Jun 2016: Drew Hogg, Dana Louie & Zeeve Rogoszinski awarded NESSF
• May 2016: Michael Kelley & Matthew Knight's paper picked up by "New Scientist"
• May 2016: Li-Jen Chen & Shan Wang MMS study featured in Science
• May 2016: Three of our researchers win NASA Agency Honor Awards
• May 2016: Mahmuda Afrin receives Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant
• May 2016: Elizabeth Warner & Peter Teuben to host high-level visitor from Haiti
• May 2016: Department volunteers entertain & enlighten public at Maryland Day
• May 2016: Alberto Bolatto promoted from Associate Professor to Professor
• May 2016: Alice Olmstead recognized at 35th Annual University Awards Program
• May 2016: Krista Smith wins Michael J. Pelczar Award for Excellence in Graduate Study
• May 2016: Pradip Gatkine wins Kulkarni Foundation Summer Research Fellowship
• May 2016: Ashlee Wilkins wins All-S.T.A.R. Fellowship
• May 2016: Vicky Toy wins Ann Wylie Dissertation Fellowship
• May 2016: Mahmuda Afrin & Mark Avara win university physics & astronomy competition
• Apr 2016: Matthew Knight & Mike Kelly DCT research published in ApJL
• Apr 2016: Vicky Toy wins Wylie Dissertation Fellowship
• Apr 2016: Derek Richardson and Mona Susanto win CMNS awards
• Apr 2016: Undergrad Mark Moretto wins prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
• Mar 2016: Ed Shaya and Rob Olling are first to catch a supernova breakout in the act
• Mar 2016: Alum Dheeraj Pasham (Ph.D. '14) wins Einstein Fellowship
• Feb 2016: Cole Miller summarizes LIGO discovery in Nature News & Views
• Feb 2016: Amy Steele interviewed for Astronomy in Color blog
• Feb 2016: Mark Wolfire earns Distinguished Research Scientist Award
• Feb 2016: Knight, Kelley, & Protopapa observe an asteroid with an identity crisis
• Feb 2016: Members of JSI & Astro Dept involved in LIGO discovery
• Feb 2016: Dr. Tracy Huard co-authors paper highlighted on AAS Nova
• Feb 2016: Alice Allen interviewed for Nature article
• Feb 2016: Dr. Teuben, E. Warner, A. Wilkins, & GRAD-MAP support HASC
• Feb 2016: E. Ferrara, J. Bonnell, B. Hesman, & R. Achterberg earn GSFC Awards
• Jan 2016: Amy Steele earns Chambliss Honorable Mention Certificate
• Jan 2016: Dr. Rick Perley receives AAS George Van Biesbroeck Prize
• Dec 2015: Alum Charles Bennett named Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
• Dec 2015: Michael Kelley discusses JWST research in Discovery News
• Nov 2015: JSI mini-symposium "JSI Scientists Jamboree" on November 20
• Nov 2015: Bodewits & A'Hearn use OSIRIS to map emissions from comet 67P
• Nov 2015: Maggie McAdam receives NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
• Oct 2015: Segura, Achterberg, & Hesman receive Goddard Honor Award
• Oct 2015: Junellie Gonzalez Quiles featured in CMNS news release
• Oct 2015: Miller, Cenko, Gezari and Mushotzky featured in Nature
• Oct 2015: Protopapa and Hamilton's Pluto studies featured in Science
• Oct 2015: Cenko, Tombesi, and Yamaguchi receive RHG Honor Awards
• Oct 2015: Special UMD Observatory observing-only session on 10/19
• Oct 2015: Michael A'Hearn receives NASA Award for Planetary Data
• Oct 2015: Francesco Tombesi receives Italian National Prize "Gentile da Fabriano"
• Oct 2015: Silvia Protopapa quoted in New Horizons press release
• Oct 2015: Alum Alex Lockwood (B.S. '07) stars in "The PHD Movie 2"
• Sep 2015: Astro faculty & GRAD-MAP part of new NSF grant to study cosmic flashes
• Sep 2015: Pasham, Cenko, Mushotzky & Tombesi featured in Astrophysical Journal Letters
• Sep 2015: ASTR 315: Minor Planet Bulletin articles have been published
• Sep 2015: Dr. Sylvain Guiriec wins 2015 Young Scientist Prize
• Sep 2015: Tyler & Henning discuss Io's magma ocean tides in the Astrophysical Journal
• Sep 2015: Department black hole research featured in CMNS' Odyssey article
• Sep 2015: Former Professor Bill Erickson passes away
• Aug 2015: JSI Workshop on supermassive black holes, Oct. 12-14
• Jul 2015: Assistant research scientist Jerry Bonnell receives Klumpke-Roberts Award
• Jun 2015: Doug Hamilton & team discuss Pluto's moons in Nature
• May 2015: Grad student Maggie McAdam wins NASA Earth&Space Science Fellowship
• May 2015: Farnham, Kelley, and Bodewits receive NASA Group Achievement Award
• May 2015: Olling, Mushotzky, and Shaya study baby supernovae in Nature article
• May 2015: Ron Ballouz wins Chateaubriand Fellowship
• May 2015: Grad student Ashlee Wilkins elected as VP for Academic Affairs
• May 2015: Grad student Krista Smith earns Graduate All-S.T.A.R. Fellowship
• Apr 2015: Alum John Mulchaey appointed Director of the Carnegie Observatories
• Apr 2015: Katie Jameson wins Graduate Student Distinguished Service Award
• Apr 2015: Join us for Maryland Day Saturday, April 25
• Apr 2015: Grad student Liu, Prof. Gezari, & Dr. Heinis featured in the Diamondback
• Apr 2015: Alum Mike McDonald accepts tenure-track faculty position at MIT
• Apr 2015: Grad students Shimizu, Rizzo, and Dhabal earn impressive fellowships
• Apr 2015: Dr. Yamaguchi and team track supernova remnant back in time
• Mar 2015: JSI mini-symposium on "Energetic Particles" on Apr. 3
• Mar 2015: Tombesi, Melendez, Veilleux and Reynolds featured in Nature cover story
• Mar 2015: Prof. J. Drake's lab featured in Astrophysical Journal Letters
• Mar 2015: Crowdfunding to help build the MD All-Sky Camera Network
• Mar 2015: Prof Suvi Gezari wins prestigious 5-year CAREER Award
• Feb 2015: UMD Observatory featured in Diamondback article
• Feb 2015: UMD Observatory celebrates 50 years of open houses
• Jan 2015: Elizabeth Warner and Clayton Smith observe asteroid occultation
• Jan 2015: Maggie McAdam and Prof. Sunshine's article inspires CosmoSparks report
• Jan 2015: A'Hearn, Bodewits and Gudipati featured in special issue of Science
• Dec 2014: Grad students Olmstead and Ballouz receive Goldhaber grants
• Dec 2014: Prof Veilleux and grad student Toy discover unusual galaxy
• Nov 2014: University of Maryland observatory celebrates 50 years
• Nov 2014: Mushotzky, Koss, Blecha, and Veilleux discuss distant light source
• Nov 2014: Drs. A'Hearn & Bodewits on OSIRIS team which captures Philae landing
• Nov 2014: Rosetta comet landing's watch party on Nov. 12 a big success
• Nov 2014: Prof. Miller & grad student Ballouz discuss supercomputer, Deepthought2
• Nov 2014: Yu, Richardson, & Schwartz predict asteroid avalanches in Earth flyby
• Oct 2014: UMD ranks among world's best in Space Science in new studies
• Oct 2014: Undergrad Allison Bostrom named a 2014-15 Merrill Presidential Scholar
• Oct 2014: Alum Kartik Sheth (Ph.D. '01) featured in NASA press release
• Oct 2014: Prof Cole Miller selected as one of the "Nifty Fifty" speakers
• Oct 2014: Alumna Fabienne Bastien (B.S. '05) featured in "NSF Discoveries"
• Sep 2014: Prof D. Deming and grad students Fraine & Wilkins published in Nature
• Sep 2014: Maggie McAdam accepted to TLTC Graduate Teaching Fellows Program
• Sep 2014: Rosetta's UV spectrograph, Alice, finds surprises on comet C-G
• Sep 2014: Undergrad Allison Bostrom publishes in Astrophysical Journal
• Sep 2014: JSI workshop on "Multimessenger Astronomy" Nov. 10-12
• Aug 2014: Grad student Pasham and Prof. Mushotzky find new class of black holes
• Aug 2014: Dr. Tombesi earns 2014 Astrophysics Science Division Peer Award
• Aug 2014: Professors Michael A'Hearn and Jessica Sunshine quoted in Science
• Jul 2014: New asteroids are named after UMD researchers
• Jul 2014: Professor Drake Deming discovers surprisingly dry exoplanets
• Jun 2014: Alumna Amy Reines receives NASA Hubble Fellowship
• Jun 2014: Prof. D. Papadopoulos writes Washington Post opinion piece on HAARP
• Jun 2014: Small Bodies Group team observes comet Siding Spring
• Jun 2014: Alum Brent Tully wins 2014 Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize
• Jun 2014: Grad student Maggie McAdam wins first place at CMS Meeting
• May 2014: Prof. Dennis Papadopoulos quoted in Nature News on HAARP closing
• May 2014: Alumna Ashley King (B.S. '09) receives NASA Einstein Fellowship
• May 2014: Gabrielle Betancourt and Krista Smith win NASA NESSF
• May 2014: Alex Fitts and Myra Stone receive Grad Student Teaching Awards
• May 2014: Dr. Melissa Hayes-Gehrke wins Undergraduate Teaching Award
• May 2014: Prof. Mike Boylan-Kolchin discusses new cosmic simulation in Nature
• May 2014: Undergrads Blankenship, Mannoia, and Rimlinger receive dept. Honors
• May 2014: Prof. Suvi Gezari's article featured in May issue of Physics Today
• May 2014: Undergrad Allison Bostrom wins Dorfman Prize
• Apr 2014: Department volunteers entertain and enlighten public at Maryland Day
• Apr 2014: Department members move to new Physical Sciences Complex
• Apr 2014: Rodrigo Herrera Camus & Ronald Ballouz win GRID competition
• Apr 2014: Vicki Toy wins International Conference Student Support Award
• Apr 2014: Astronomy Workshop featured in article on 10 weirdest calculations
• Apr 2014: Anne Lohfink wins CMNS BOV Outstanding Grad Student Award
• Apr 2014: Dr. Gerald Share to appear on episode of Cosmic Front
• Apr 2014: Alum Matt Bobrowski (Ph.D. '85) is a 2014 "Nifty Fifty" speaker
• Apr 2014: Grad student Gabriele Betancourt-Martinez wins NSTRF Fellowship
• Apr 2014: Grad student Maggie McAdam wins travel awards for 2014 CMS meeting
• Apr 2014: Alumnus Prof. Charles Bennett wins CMNS Distinguished Alumni Award
• Apr 2014: Prof. Sylvain Veilleux selected as a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow
• Mar 2014: ASTR 315 students published in The Minor Planet Bulletin
• Feb 2014: Matthew Knight (Ph.D. '08) quoted in Nature article on comet ISON
• Jan 2014: Kepler telescope unlocks new info about supernovas
• Jan 2014: Prof. Reynolds receives a pair of impressive honors
• Jan 2014: Galaxy NGC253 featured in Nature Magazine's "Images of the Year"
• Jan 2014: Ludmilla Kolokolova gives interview on Voice of Russia
• Dec 2013: ASTR 315 students discover binary asteroid system
• Dec 2013: Discovery of Segue 2 listed among top 100 stories of 2013
• Dec 2013: Prof. Drake Deming & team find more atmospheric water on exoplanets
• Dec 2013: Alice Olmstead's poster on Astrobites featured in Mercury magazine
• Dec 2013: Dr. Dale Fixsen awarded Robert H. Goddard Honor Award
• Nov 2013: Alum Matthew Knight (Ph.D. '08) featured in NASA Science News article
• Nov 2013: Dr. Tombesi receives ISSNAF Award Special Mention
• Nov 2013: "JSI Scientist Jamboree" mini-symposium on Nov. 15
• Nov 2013: Prof. Drake Deming discusses Earth-like planet in "Nature"
• Nov 2013: Drs. Shaya & Tully explain formation of Local Group galaxy planes
• Oct 2013: Dr. Surja Sharma selected to deliver Ramanathan Memorial Lecture
• Oct 2013: Drs. Knight, Walsh, and Bodewits quoted in Nature article on comet ISON
• Oct 2013: Alumna Fabienne Bastien (B.S. '05) improves accuracy of star properties
• Sep 2013: Former ASTR 100 student Elaine Hunt starts astronomy blog
• Sep 2013: Deep Impact's hugely successful mission comes to an end after 8 years
• Sep 2013: Grad student Kari Helgason interviewed for Icelandic National TV show
• Sep 2013: Grad student Ron Ballouz wins two travel grants for OSIRIS-REx meeting
• Sep 2013: JSI workshop on "Putting Accretion Theory to the Test" Nov. 4-6
• Sep 2013: Alum Brett Morris' (B.S. '12) exoplanet photometry code made public
• Aug 2013: Intern Mark Moretto wins National Young Astronomer Award
• Jul 2013: Prof. Lee Mundy thanked for his service as CARMA director
• Jul 2013: Prof. Alberto Bolatto finds heavy gas outflows from starbursting galaxy
• Jul 2013: Prof. Sylvain Veilleux and team land $1 million Keck Foundation award
• Jul 2013: Alum Don Yeomans (Ph.D. '70) receives 2013 Carl Sagan Medal
• Jul 2013: Assistant Professor Mike Boylan-Kolchin joins Department of Astronomy
• Jul 2013: Alum Paul Butler (Ph.D. '93) on team discovering 3 super-Earths
• Jun 2013: Grad students organize D.C.-area summer astronomy meeting
• Jun 2013: Prof. Chris Reynolds receives Taiwanese astronomy award
• May 2013: Res. Prof. Neil Miller helps identify extragalactic radio sources
• May 2013: Prof. Andy Harris' Zpectrometer benefits galaxy evolution research
• May 2013: JSI mini-symposium on May 31 on time domain astronomy
• May 2013: Elizabeth Warner interviewed by WUSA on Australian solar eclipse
• May 2013: Grad student Che-Yu Chen wins NESSF fellowship
• May 2013: Ed Shaya and Stacy McGaugh provide insight on Local Group gas clouds
• May 2013: Students create Astronomy Gentleladies Network mentoring program
• May 2013: Ms. Dorinda Kimbrell joins department as new Dir. of Admin. Services
• Apr 2013: Prof. Derek Richardson selected as Meaker Visiting Prof. at Bristol
• Apr 2013: Undergrad Phil Cowperthwaite wins Dorfman Prize for galaxy research
• Apr 2013: Department volunteers entertain and enlighten public at Maryland Day
• Apr 2013: Alum Don Yeomans (Ph.D. '70) makes Time's top 100 list for 2013
• Apr 2013: Small Bodies Group participates in Hubble observations of Comet ISON
• Apr 2013: Grad student Kari Helgason interviewed by Iceland National TV
• Apr 2013: Undergrads Bittle, Cowperthwaite, Katz, & Matthews achieve High Honors
• Apr 2013: Poem inspired by ASTR 410 exam wins Honorable Mention in competition
• Apr 2013: Prof. Suvi Gezari's article featured on June cover of "Sky & Telescope"
• Apr 2013: AstroTerps astronomy club undertakes public outreach in local schools
• Apr 2013: Grad students Donaldson, Pasham, and Chen win Grad School fellowships
• Apr 2013: Dr. Christopher Hamilton finds Io's volcanoes in unexpected locations
• Apr 2013: Undergrads Cowperthwaite Katz, alumna Woolsey receive NSF awards
• Mar 2013: "Sky & Telescope" Saturn's rings article features department members
• Mar 2013: Dr. Dennis Bodewits leads team studying Comet ISON with Swift satellite
• Mar 2013: Prof. Mike A'Hearn invited to testify for Congress on Near-Earth Objects
• Mar 2013: Voice of Russia interviews Prof. Alberto Bolatto about new ALMA array
• Mar 2013: Prof. Alberto Bolatto wins a Humboldt Fraunhofer-Bessel Research Award
• Feb 2013: Professor Emeritus Don Wentzel passed away on Feb. 20, 2013
• Feb 2013: Department prominently featured in media after meteor impact in Russia
• Feb 2013: Alumna Alexandra Lockwood (B.S. '07) gives TEDxYouth talk
• Feb 2013: Possible 'Comet of the Century' observed by Deep Impact spacecraft
• Feb 2013: Alum Brett Morris (B.S. '12) detects an exoplanet cooling its host star
• Jan 2013: Grad student Rodrigo Herrera Camus wins poster award at conference
• Jan 2013: Undergrad Steffi Yen wins Chambliss Honorable Mention for AAS poster
• Jan 2013: Dr. Peter Teuben chairs advisory committee for Astroph. Source Code Lib.
• Jan 2013: High school student Mark Moretto selected as a semi-finalist for Intel STS
• Dec 2012: Alum Kartik Sheth featured in NSF "Science Nation" report on ALMA
• Nov 2012: Department offers two new courses for non-majors: ASTR 230 and 305
• Nov 2012: Talk by Dr. Steve Squyres on Thurs., Nov. 15, on the Mars rovers
• Oct 2012: Dr. Brigette Hesman leads Cassini study of Saturn's exceptional storm
• Oct 2012: Dr. Gart Westerhout, first UMD Astronomy Director, passed away Oct. 15
• Sep 2012: "JSI Scientists Jamboree" mini-symposium on Oct. 5
• Sep 2012: Dr. Surja Sharma is editor of new book on complexity science
• Aug 2012: Prof. Mike A'Hearn's paper leads Icarus' list of best articles
• Aug 2012: Alum Mike McDonald '11 discovers record-breaking galaxy cluster
• Aug 2012: Grad student Alice Olmstead wins 3 travel awards
• Aug 2012: Marcia Segura, Alexander Kutyrev, and Noah Petro win NASA awards
• Jul 2012: JSI workshop on "Nature's Particle Accelerators" in Annapolis, Oct. 22-25
• Jul 2012: Discovery Channel Telescope holds "First Light Gala"
• Jul 2012: Prof. Drake Deming discusses an exoplanet system similar to our own
• Jul 2012: Professor Emeritus Roger Bell passes away
• Jul 2012: Assistant Professor Suvi Gezari joins Department of Astronomy
• Jun 2012: Alumna Janet Luhman '74 receives COSPAR Space Science Award
• Jun 2012: Grad student Jithin George wins AAS Chambliss Honorable Mention
• Jun 2012: President Loh helps make final pitch to NASA for Comet Hopper mission
• Jun 2012: Department's 'transit of Venus' viewing well-attended, but clouded out
• May 2012: Dr. Zoghbi and Prof. Reynolds find X-ray echoes from galactic black hole
• 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
• Sep 2011: Dr. Meg Urry presents ADVANCE lecture on women in science
• Sep 2011: Talk about M101 supernova by Dr. Peter Nugent draws a large crowd
• Sep 2011: JSI mini-symposium on Sept. 16 reviewed current research projects
• Sep 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
• Jul 2011: Grad students Edmund Hodges-Kluck and Mike Koss defend dissertations
• Jul 2011: Prof. Alberto Bolatto finds massive amounts of water in quasar spectrum
• Jul 2011: EPOXI teams and Dr. Dennis Wellnitz win NASA awards
• Jul 2011: Undergrad Brett Morris makes UMD observatory's 1st exoplanet detection
• Jul 2011: Prof. Doug Hamilton co-leader of team discovering Pluto's fourth moon
• Jul 2011: Drake Deming and Jessica Sunshine join our professorial faculty
• Jul 2011: Professors Pat Harrington and Mike A'Hearn retire
• Jun 2011: Prof. Dennis Papadopoulos' work featured as a "Research Spotlight"
• Jun 2011: Prof. Richard Mushotzky to receive NASA's Distinguished Service Medal
• Jun 2011: UMD-led EPOXI science team publishes latest comet findings in Science
• Jun 2011: New video of asteroid Vesta from Dawn space probe reveals dark spot
• Jun 2011: Grad student Mike Koss discovers binary supermassive black holes
• Jun 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 undergrad Justin DeSha-Overcash
• Dec 2010: CARMA Science Symposium Feb. 28-Mar. 1, 2011 at UC-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
• Sep 2010: Natsuha Kuroda and Albert Wavering win College Park Scholars awards
• Sep 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
• Jun 2010: Alumnus Charles Bennett awarded 2010 Shaw Prize for WMAP work
• Jun 2010: CARMA open house in California a popular attraction
• Jun 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
• Sep 2009: EPOXI scientists confirm water on the Moon's surface
• Sep 2009: Undergrad Val Klavans wins Shapiro Undergraduate Research Award
• Sep 2009: Undergrad Erin Grand produces best-ever UV view of Andromeda Gal.
• Jul 2009: "Women in Astronomy" meeting Oct. 21-23, 2009
• Jun 2009: Dawn Science Team receives the NASA Group Achievement Award
• Jun 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 Bogdanović 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

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