Department News

Remembering Ron Allen

Remembering Ron Allen
From Ken Sembach, Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute: Dear Colleagues, It is with sadness that I inform you that our colleague and emeritus astronomer Ron Allen passed away Saturday morning. Ron joined the Institute in 1989 and had recently retired. During his tenure at STScI, he held many positions, served on numerous external […]

Alex Szalay Receives the Viktor Ambartsumian International Science Prize

Alex Szalay Receives the Viktor Ambartsumian International Science Prize
Professor Alex Szalay is one of three recipients of the 2020 Viktor Ambartsumian International Science Prize. The award is in recognition of Professor Szalay’s “pioneering work on demonstrating that the Dark Matter in the Universe might be a neutral, weakly interacting particle and for his contributions to data-driven, statistical cosmology.” The Viktor Ambartsumian International Science […]

Jeffrey Cummings and Sihao Cheng Author Paper on Carbon’s Origin in the Milky Way

Jeffrey Cummings and Sihao Cheng Author Paper on Carbon’s Origin in the Milky Way
Associate Research Scientist Jeffrey Cummings and graduate student Sihao Cheng are among the authors of a new study in Nature Astronomy that sheds light on carbon’s origin in the Milky Way. The paper is titled “Carbon star formation as seen through the non-monotonic initial–final mass relation.” “The findings pose new, stringent constraints on how and when carbon was […]

Graduate Teaching Awards for 2019-2020

Graduate Teaching Awards for 2019-2020
The graduate program committee recognizes an outstanding performance by co-head teaching assistants Melissa Diamond and Joshua Kable who have performed significantly above and beyond the call of duty this term, and have made major substantive contributions to the success of their extremely large course (AS.171.104, Physics for Biological Majors, nearly 400 undergraduates) this semester. Joshua Kable receives this year’s […]