Ben Ryan, who recently defended his thesis, won the 2018 Mr. and Mrs. Hsiang-pai and Wen-hua Chu Department Of Astronomy Excellence in Research Graduate Student Award. This award has been given by Prof. Emerita You-Hua Chu in honor of her parents, to a graduate student.
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Lecture Series to be Named for KalerThe Staerkel Planetarium renames its monthly lecture series after Prof. Emeritus Jim Kaler.
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Every year, the University of Illinois awards six people the Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) Award. This year, Prof. and Assistant Chair Bryan Dunne was one of the winners.
More Department News
- Charlie Young, a sophomore in CS+Astronomy, has created an analytics program for Fighting Illini baseball. Read here for more details
- Sidney Lower, a senior minoring in Astronomy, has won the 2018 Layla S. Ryan Scholarship award.
- Prof. Eliu Huerta and Grad Student Daniel George are pioneering the use of Deep Learning to study gravitational waves. Read more here
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
ASTR 100Learn the basic concepts of modern astronomy, from the Solar System to the Big Bang.
ASTR 210Survey of modern astronomy for students with background in physics.
ASTR 350Studies the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe, and the scientific tools used to study these issues.
Celebrating our Sesquicentennial 1867-2017
