2024-10-02 - The following passage is an except from an article about the proposed Hop-Enabled Real-time Observatory Information and Coordination (HEROIC) service from NCSA: "With hundreds of observatories scattered throughout the world, there has never been a better time for astronomers to observe the infinite universe that lies beyond Earth. At any moment in time, a telescope pointed at the night sky...

2024-09-19 - The following except below is from a recent article. Please follow the link for more information. Funded by a five-year, $20 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Simons Foundation, the National...

2024-08-30 - One of the largest ever allocations of competitive telescope time on the James Webb Space Telescope will go to Prof. Shen's group for the North ecliptic pole EXtragalactic Unified Survey (NEXUS).  NEXUS will address a range of topics from the evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes to violent stellar deaths in supernovae and the coldest stars in the Milky Way.  An...

2024-08-30 - New research by Prof. Xin Liu and graduate student Grant Merz is highlighted in an LAS News article (see link below).  The project, known as Detection, Instance Segmentation, and Classification with Deep Learning, or DeepDISC, leverages machine learning—a branch of AI intertwined with computer science.

2024-08-29 - We want to congratulate the successful thesis defense of the newly minted Dr. Frankie Encalada on August 23, 2024. He is pictured with his committee members Professor Leslie Looney, Professor Tony Wong, and Professor Charles Gammie

2024-08-26 - Among the projects funded by a five-year agreement between the University of Illinois and Cardiff University in the United Kingdom is an inter-university collaboration on galaxy evolution led by Prof. Decker French (Illinois) and Dr. Timothy Davis (Cardiff).  To kick...

2024-08-02 - We want to congratulate the successful thesis defense of the newly minted Dr. Cail Daley. He is pictured during his thesis defense presentation. The committee members that joined the celebration are Professor Gilbert Holder, Professor Paul Ricker, Professor Jeffrey Filippini, and Professor Brian David Fields (Remote)

2024-06-20 - We want to congratulate the successful thesis defense of the newly minted Dr. Melanie Archipley. She is pictured celebrating the amazing news. The committee members that joined the celebration are Professor Joaquin Vieira, Professor Felipe Menanteau, Professor Gilbert Holder, Professor Thomas Crawford, and Professor Brian David Fields (Remote)  

2024-05-20 -                                                   This summer camp for high school students will be focused on hands-on astronomy projects. Join this week-long summer camp to play with real astronomical data and hang with real astronomers! ...

2024-05-16 - Professor Gautham Narayan has been approved by the Urbana-Champaign Campus Promotion & Tenure Committee for promotion to Associate Processor with indefinite tenure! Let us take a moment to congratulate Professor Gautham Narayan on this great accomplishment.

2024-05-16 - Astronomers and astrophysicists including Tony Wong, Helvi Witek, Athol Kemball, Fred Lamb, Jon Thaler, and Inga Karliner meet with founding NCSA director Larry Smarr at the Institute for Genomic Biology.  Smarr will receive an honorary degree at Commencement.

2024-05-06 - UIUC Astronomy graduate students Liam Nolan, Alex Green, Margaret Shepard, and Tanner Murphy and Astronomy undergrad Ferdinand Ferdinand hosted the Science at the Market booth at the Urbana Farmer's Market, allowing more than 380 visitors to participate in safe solar viewing and other astronomy demonstrations.  This will be followed on subsequent Saturdays by presentations from other...

2024-05-06 - We want to congratulate the successful thesis defense of the newly minted Dr. Kedar Phadke. He is pictured celebrating the amazing news. The committee members that joined the celebration are Professor Joaquin Vieira, Professor Felipe Menanteau, Professor Paul Ricker (Remote), and Department Chair Tony Wong.  

2024-05-02 - The UIUC Talkshow recently interview Professor Charles Gammie, who was recently endowed the Ikenberry Chair.

2024-04-24 - We want to take a moment to congratulate our graduate and undergraduate students for their well deserved awards.  Layla S. Ryan Scholarship Award 2024 Winner: Holly Wingren Stanley Wyatt...