Press Releases

Application Submission: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/fellowship/25600  Closing Date for Receipt of Applications: November 15th, 2023  Email Address for Inquiries: interimdirector@dunlap.utoronto.ca The University of Toronto invites applications for the Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellowships within the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics. The Dunlap Institute pursues innovative instrumentation, technology, and observational…

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 Earlier this year, astronomers successfully launched a balloon-borne telescope that captured extraordinary images of the Universe on its first flight above the Earth’s atmosphere. The Super Pressure Balloon-Borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) was flown to the edge of space by a helium-filled NASA scientific balloon…

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Professor Jo Bovy, an associated faculty member at the Dunlap Institute, was elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s (RSC) College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists this year.   The College recognizes mid-career leaders who provide the RSC with multigenerational capacity to help address…

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This summer, 36 emerging scholars in astronomy and astrophysics came together at the University of Toronto for the Dunlap Institute Summer School. We hosted undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students from across Canada, the United States, Chile, Mexico, Israel, South Korea, Denmark, Japan, the UK, and…

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Dunlap Fellow Dr. Ziggy Pleunis has been awarded a prestigious Veni fellowship from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to support his work on the detection and characterization of fast radio bursts. Designed for scientists who have recently obtained their PhDs, the grant fuels three years…

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Follow Quebec-born, Innu astrophysicist Dr. Laurie Rousseau-Nepton as she studies the cosmos from atop Hawai’i’s Maunakea volcano. North Star, a five-part documentary series that premiered on August 21, 2023, chronicles Dr. Laurie Rousseau-Nepton’s fascinating journey as a resident astronomer at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Rousseau-Nepton is…

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An international collaboration of over 170 scientists published the first evidence for the presence of low-frequency gravitational waves humming throughout our universe—including one recent member of the Dunlap Institute.  Dr. Cherry Ng came to the Dunlap Institute in 2017 as a SOSCIP TalentEdge Fellow and Research…

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June 14, 2023 by Josslyn Johnstone – A&S News In a study published today in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, researchers at the University of Toronto reveal a theoretical breakthrough that may explain both the nature of invisible dark matter and the large-scale…

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  By Meaghan MacSween, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto   Astronomers in the Canadian-led CHIME/FRB Collaboration have doubled the number of known repeating sources of mysterious flashes of radio waves, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs). Among them are astronomers from…

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  By Leighton Kitson, Durham University, with notes from Meaghan MacSween, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto   Astronomers have successfully launched a balloon-borne telescope that has begun capturing images of the Universe on its first flight above the Earth’s atmosphere.  The Super…

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