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  Project: The Skies Above Turtle Island: An Indigenous Astronomy Digital Education Portal Department: Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics Supervisor: Dr. Hilding Neilson, Assistant Professor Email Submission and Inquiries: neilson@astro.utoronto.ca Closing Date for Receipt of Applications: February 1, 2021   Job description: The Dunlap…

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  Application Submission: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/17914  Closing Date for Receipt of Applications: February 15, 2021  Email Address for Inquiries: abigail.crites@dunlap.utoronto.ca ______________________________________________________________________ The Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto seeks to appoint a postdoctoral researcher to work on scientific and technical problems related…

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  Application Submission:  https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/17355  Closing Date for Receipt of Applications: December 15th, 2020  Email Address for Inquiries: hlozek@dunlap.utoronto.ca ______________________________________________________________________________________ The Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto seeks to appoint a postdoctoral researcher to work on scientific and technical problems related…

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  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 04, 2020 New data from a Canadian-led team of astronomers – including researchers from the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrphysics and the University of Toronto  – strongly suggests that magnetars – a type of neutron star believed to have…

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  Application Submission: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/16692 Closing Date for Receipt of Applications: November 16th, 2020 Email Address for Inquiries: bryan.gaensler@utoronto.ca ______________________________________________________________________ The Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto seeks to appoint a postdoctoral researcher to work on scientific and technical problems related…

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  Application Submission:  https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/fellowship/16689 Closing Date for Receipt of Applications: November 2nd, 2020 Email Address for Inquiries: director@dunlap.utoronto.ca ______________________________________________________________________ The University of Toronto invites applications for Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellowships within the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics. The Dunlap Institute pursues innovative instrumentation, technology and…

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  Astronomers from the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics have led a research team that has helped map the north-sky portion of the Milky Way Galaxy’s magnetic field. The team used data from the CHIME telescope to measure the way in which invisible magnetism distorts…

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  Date Posted: 07/22/2020 Req ID: 256 Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science Department: Dunlap Inst. for Astronomy & Astrophysics Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto) To Apply:  https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-ON/540761317/ About Us:The Faculty of Arts & Science is the heart of Canada’s leading university and one of the most comprehensive and…

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Observations by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope suggest that the universe is 13.8 billion years old.   July 15, 2020 – From a mountain high in Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers with the National Science Foundation’s Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) – including researchers with the Dunlap Institute for…

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  July 15, 2020 – The team behind the Canadian-based radio telescope CHIME (the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment) has been awarded the fifth annual Governor General’s Innovation Award. Announced Tuesday by the Rideau Hall Foundation, these awards recognize and celebrate exceptional Canadian individuals, teams, and organizations who…

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