08/02/2022 - Congratulations to Professor Joaquin Vieira for his promotion to full professor! Read more here
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07/11/2022 - Congratulations to Dr. Sreevani Jarugula! She defended her PhD thesis "Molecules in the Early Universe" on July 8, 2022 with advisor Prof. Joaquin Vieira.
07/07/2022 - Congratulations to Dr. Jesse Miller and Dr. Ada Ertel! They defended their PhD theses: "Consequences of Near-Earth Supernovae on the Heliosphere" and "Paleo-astronomy: Investigating...
06/30/2022 - The AAS has released the astronomical obituary of Illinois Emeritus Professor Ed Olson, who passed in 2020. Ed was an expert on eclipsing and mass-transferring binary stellar systems. Read more...
06/29/2022 - A team led by Prof. Tony Wong, and including Prof. Leslie Looney, showed that the star formation at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is still driven by gravity even with all the nearby massive...
06/10/2022 - Prof. Xin Liu explains “what would happen if two supermassive black holes merged” in this month’s...
06/01/2022 - Congratulations to Prof. Brian Fields, Prof. Telemachos Mouschovias, and grad student Grant Merz for being named to the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students for...
05/17/2022 - We are excited to announce that applications are now open for the 2022 Girls’ Astronomy Summer Camp! This summer camp for high school students will be focused on hands-on...
05/16/2022 - Congratulations to Prof. Gammie and his team as part of the international collaboration that just released the first image of the accretion disk surrounding the supermassive Black...
05/04/2022 - Congratulations to Dr. Paul Sutter, who was just awarded the 2022 Corones Award. Paul is one of our physics alums (worked with Prof. Ricker) and a great science communicator....
04/27/2022 - A team of Astronomers including Prof. French have discovered that post-starburst galaxies condense their gas rather than expelling it, begging the question: what’s actually keeping them from forming...
02/17/2022 - Illinois Prof. Looney was part of the team (led by alum John Tobin) that probed the youngest protostars in Orion at the highest resolution to date. They found that roughly 30% of all systems surveyed...
02/04/2022 - New affiliate Astronomy faculty Prof. Eggl and Astronomy Research Prof. Gruendl were invited to join the new International Astronomical Union Centre for the Protection of the Dark Sky from Satellite...
01/13/2022 - Prof. Leslie Looney discusses near Earth asteroids in...
01/10/2022 - Congratulations to Prof. Brian Fields for being on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students in Fall 2021 for ASTR - Stellar Astrophysics...
