News and Events
Congratulations to Professor Peter Schloerb, who won the 2019 College of Natural Sciences Outstanding Service/Engagement Achievement Award! A complete list of Astronomy faculty awards can be found here.
Gopal Narayanan and Peter Schloerb coordinated the "Event Horizon Telescope" (EHT), essentially turning the Earth into a giant telecope by coordinating observations from sites in Mexico, Hawaii, Arizona, the South Pole, Chile, and Spain. The Large Millimeter Telescope.
Kenneth Lin, a junior majoring in Physics and Astronomy (BS), won the 2019 William F. Field Alumni Scholars Award. The Field Scholarship is awarded to outstanding junior students by the University and the UMass Alumni Association. Kenneth's research interests include galaxy evolution, AGN, and spectroscopy. He is curretly a Research Assistant with Professor Alex Pope's group
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.
