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September Grad Student of the Month: Tomás Cassanelli

  [one_half] [/one_half] Tomás is a fourth year PhD candidate at the University of Toronto (U of T), specializing in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Before starting at U of T, Tomás completed an Astrophysics MSc at the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (Germany), and an engineering/physics degree from Universidad de La

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August Grad Student of the Month: Taylor Kutra

    [one_half] [/one_half] Taylor is starting her fourth year as a PhD Candidate in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. She did her undergraduate degree at Quest University Canada in British Columbia where she studied physics and astronomy. When she isn’t doing astronomy, she spends her time backpacking, paddling,

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DIVSS Students in Focus: Aryanna Schiebelbein

  [one_half] [/one_half]     Aryanna Schiebelbein is from Waterloo, Ontario. She\’s going into her fourth year at the University of Waterloo. Her major is Physics and Astronomy, with a minor in Anthropology. [bra_border_divider top=\’15\’ bottom=\’15\’][one_half] What first interested you in astronomy? So, ever since I was in elementary school and first learned about astronomy,

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DIVSS Students in Focus: Carlos Daniel Trejos Angulo

  [one_half] [/one_half] Carlos Daniel Trejos Angulo is from Turrialba, Cartago, Costa Rica. He attends the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica and is going into his fourth year of Electronic Engineering. [bra_border_divider top=\’15\’ bottom=\’15\’][one_half] What most interested you about Dunlap\’s instrumentation school?  In Costa Rica, I\’m involved in an astronomy club called AstroTEC. The teacher

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DIVSS Students in Focus: Alfred Mishi

  [one_half] [/one_half]   Alfred Mishi is a Dunlap Instrumentation Virtual Summer School student from Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria. He recently completed his Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics at the University of Jos, Nigeria. He joins the Dunlap Instrumentation Summer School virtually from Makurdi. [bra_border_divider top=\’15\’ bottom=\’15\’][one_half] How did you first become interested in astronomy? 

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Mapping The Milky Way: Postdoc Creates First Interactive Tool

  A Dunlap Postdoc has created a new way to visualize and interpret the stars in the Milky Way, centred around the Sun. With the help of his colleagues, Banting & Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Josh Speagle used publicly available datasets and statistical methods to map out the distances to, and properties of, 170 million

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