News and Events
The Cosmic Life Cycle of Massive Galaxies
3:45 p.m. in LGRT-B 1033
Amherst College LEADS presents "Space Now and Beyond", featuring a panel exploring current and future topics of space and aeronautics.
Monday, March 4 8:00 p.m.
Lipton Lecture Hall, Amherst College Science Center
25 East Drive Amherst, MA 01002
Astronaut and UMass Amherst Alumna, Cady Coleman PhD (class of '91), will present, "Lessons from Space Lead Straight Back to Earth", Wednesday 2/27 from 5:00 to 7:00 P.M. at the Commonwealth Honors College. This event is free and open to the public!
Dr. Nia Imara, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, will present special lunch talk,"Star Formation Then and Now". Dr. Imara is a faculty candidate in Astronomy at Smith College and the Five College Astronomy Department.
More information: https://www.astro.umass.edu/events/lunch
Students from Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School in Holyoke visited to tour our research facilities, eat donuts, and meet our researchers and faculty. Special thanks to Camilla Sise, Physics Teacher and Head of the High School's Science Department, for arranging the visit!
Spring 2019 Journals Club begins February 4th. This semester's focus is "A Review of Cultural Issues Facing Astronomers".
Schedule: https://www.astro.umass.edu/events/journal-club
The 25th Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference (MassURC) will take place on Friday, April 26th, 2019 in the Lincoln Campus Center at UMass Amherst. Abstracts and registrations are due by Friday, February 15 at 11:59 p.m.
The 2019 Dannie Heineman Prize was awarded to PhD Alumn Ted Bergin by the American Astronomical Society and the American Institute of Physics.
UMass Amherst will host the January 18-20 American Physical Society Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP).
More info: https://blogs.umass.edu/cuwip/
The Astronomy Department will host the 5th New England Star Formation Meeting on January 18, 2019. The aim of this series of meetings is to bring together the students, postdocs, and faculty who are working on topics related to the Galactic star formation, in order to share recent research efforts.