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Professor Renée Hložek Awarded 2025 Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship

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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer By Ilana MacDonald, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics Renée Hložek, Associate Professor at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, is one of six researchers who was awarded the 2025 Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). […]

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UTSC Astronomy Student is the 2025 Mercedes T. Richards Award for Excellence in Summer Undergraduate Research Recipient

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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer By Ilana MacDonald, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics University of Toronto Scarborough student Aishani Chaudhuri, who just started her third year specializing in Physics and Astrophysics, is this year’s recipient of the Mercedes T. Richards Award for Excellence in Summer Undergraduate Research. This past summer, Chaudhuri participated in

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SURP Student Spotlight: Steven (Tianyu) Luo

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SURP Student Spotlight: Zehao Peng

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SURP Student Spotlight: Sharone Abhilash

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SURP Student Spotlight: Zeinab Imani

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SURP Student Spotlight: Jiayi (Emma) Xu

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Join us for the “first look” at images from Vera C. Rubin Observatory, taken with the largest camera ever built

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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer Sunset at Rubin Observatory on Cerro Pachón in Chile.Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek   The Camera and Observatory The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory will revolutionize how we understand our night sky and beyond. After the world’s largest camera was completed in April 2024, carefully transported to Cerro Pachón in Chile,

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U of T Astronomers Pioneer Innovative Machine Learning Model to Determine the Ages of Stars

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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer   By Ilana MacDonald, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics Determining the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy. Despite this, it remains an extremely challenging problem to solve, as stellar ages cannot be ascertained by simply observing stars. University of Toronto astronomers have developed

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