We are pleased to announce the 2020 Layla Suzanne Ryan Scholarship winner, Lina Florez!
Through the generosity of the Ryan family, the Layla Suzanne Ryan Scholarship was founded in 2007 to honor her memory by recognizing the efforts of a young astronomer who shares their passion, experience, and knowledge of Astronomy with peers, faculty and the public through community outreach....
We are pleased to announce the 2020 Stanley Wyatt Memorial Award co-recipients, Barry Chiang and Kyle Nelli! The Stanley Wyatt Memorial Award is awarded annually to the graduating Astronomy major or minor with the most outstanding GPA and track record of undergraduate research. The award honors Professor Stanley Wyatt, a faculty member who helped shape the Illinois Astronomy...
Celeste Lu earned her PhD on Monday, June 22, 2020. The title of her defense was "Simulations of Active Galactic Nucleus Feedback in the Cores of Galaxy Clusters." Congratulations, Celeste!
Prof. Xin Liu has been named one of NCSA's Faculty Fellows for the 2020-21 school year. Read details here
"The Rise and Fall of Star Formation in Galaxies” has been selected as one of seven Symposia for the 2021 IAU General Assembly, and will be organized by Professor Tony Wong. The largest international gathering of astronomers is the IAU General Assembly which takes place every three years. The scientific program at the IAU GA revolves around several Symposia that cover a broad range of...- As you probably have heard, the U of I is beginning the process of returning to work in early June. The main priority in this will be the safety of our faculty, staff, researchers, and students, as well as their family, and our community overall. The Astronomy Department will be following the guidelines of campus during the transition with processes to mitigate the spread of COVID-19...
Congratulations to the awesome Astronomy Class of 2020! Best wishes on your future endeavors--you make us proud! Forty-Five Astronomy and CS+Astronomy seniors graduated on May 16, 2020 during an online ceremony. The students are: Nirali Bhatt, Vivek Bhookya, Barry Chiang, Tori Colthurst, Elizabeth De Sa E Silva, Devanshi Pratap, Keslie Elketroussi, Lina Florez, Lauren...
Congratulations to Dr. Miguel Holgado for successfully defending his thesis on May 18, 2020. The title of his defense was "Gravitational Waves as Direct Probes of Binary Evolution and Astrophysical Environments."
Congratulations to UIUC graduate student Alex Gagliano for winning the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program! We look forward to the great science Alex will be doing as he works towards his Ph.D.!
Prof. Felipe Menanteau and Astronomy Senior Lina Florez are part of Cena y Ciencias (Supper and Science), a science and pizza night conducted in Spanish with scientists of Hispanic heritage, led by Prof. Menanteau . In early March, before Shelter in Place, they did a great program about heat and temperature. Read more here “...
Congratulations to Lauren Gregory, an astronomy major at Illinois, who received the award for Best Poster at the recent Women in Data Science Conference at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Lauren works with Prof. Matias Carrasco Kind of NCSA and Astronomy on the The Dark Energy Survey.
Hubble Space Telescope/European Space Agency made a photo release of a Hubble Space Telescope observations from Illinois astronomers led by Prof. Leslie Looney. This star-forming region is in a nearby galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. They predict the highest mass star in the cluster is ~30 times the mass of our sun. The total mass of stars in the cluster is ~600 times the...
Andrew Nadolski earned his PhD on March 9, 2020. The title of his defense was "Broadband, millimeter-wave antireflection coatings for cryogenic sintered aluminum oxide optics". Congratulations, Andrew!- Illinois Prof. Looney was among the science team that released high resolution images of hundred of young stars (and the disks that surround them) in Orion; the largest survey of young stars and their disks to date. The images reveal the first stages of planet formation and extend our understanding of how stars and planets evolve. Read about it...
Prof. Xin Liu has been recognized as a Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholar by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Congratulations, Xin!