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Professor Roberto Abraham wins the 2023 Jackson-Gwilt Medal

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  By Meaghan MacSween, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto University of Toronto Astronomy Professor Roberto Abraham has won the 2023 Jackson-Gwilt Medal for his innovative work on the Dragonfly Telephoto Array. The medal was awarded by the United Kingdom’s Royal Astronomical Society. Abraham is a Professor and Chair of the David A. Dunlap […]

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U of T Astronomy Student Wins First Professor Mercedes T. Richards Award

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  University of Toronto undergraduate student Madeline Nardin is the winner of the 2022 Professor Mercedes T. Richards Award for Excellence in summer undergraduate research in astronomy. This is the inaugural year for this award, named after renowned astronomer and U of T alum (PhD 1986) Professor Mercedes T. Richards. The award was created to

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From Fellow to Faculty: Professor Josh Speagle

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  [one_half] [/one_half] [one_half_last] I\’m an Assistant Professor of Astrostatistics jointly appointed between the Department of Statistical Sciences and the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics. I moved from the role of Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellow in 2022.  I spent a lot of my childhood shuttling back and forth between the United States and China, splitting my time

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CHIME Collaboration wins Brockhouse Prize

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by Arts & Science News A cross-Canada collaboration including the University of Toronto has won the prestigious Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering from the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), for groundbreaking insight into astrophysical mysteries The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is a groundbreaking radio telescope — one

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Teaching telescopes to multitask may be key to finding extraterrestrial intelligence

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  A new telescope strategy may bring astronomers closer to figuring out whether we’re alone in the universe. Along with her team, Dr. Cherry Ng of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto has published a detailed plan on how to use a promising new telescope to its maximum capacity,

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Dunlap researchers help reveal galaxy sparkling with universe’s oldest star clusters

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September 29, 2022 by Josslyn Johnstone – A&S News Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers from the Canadian NIRISS Unbiased Cluster Survey (CANUCS) team — including observational astronomers from the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics in the Faculty of Arts & Science — have identified the most distant globular clusters ever discovered. These

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U of T\’s Renée Hložek Elected to College of New Scholars 

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  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  – The University of Toronto’s Professor Renée Hložek has been elected to the prestigious College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada. The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists recognizes emerging intellectual leadership within Canada, of scholars in their early post-doctoral career. Hložek is an Associate Professor at the Dunlap Institute

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Astronomers detect a radio “heartbeat” billions of light-years from Earth

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  The clear and periodic pattern of fast radio bursts may originate from a distant neutron star.   By Jennifer Chu (MIT News Office), with notes from Meaghan MacSween Along with collaboration partners, astronomers at the Dunlap Institute and the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics have detected a strange and persistent radio signal

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CHIME Outrigger Telescopes boost search for Fast Radio Bursts

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  CHIME\’s new siblings will pinpoint where bursts detected by Canada’s world-renowned telescope come from. By Meaghan Thurston and Fergus Grieve, with notes from Meaghan MacSween In the quest to identify the origins of one of astronomy’s biggest mysteries – fast radio bursts (FRBs) – Canada’s world-renowned telescope, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME),

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Two Dunlap Postdocs Win Prestigious Hubble Fellowship

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  Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellows Dr. Kathryn Neugent and Dr. Karthiek Iyer have been awarded the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship beginning in the fall of 2022. The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program supports promising postdoctoral scientists to pursue research that will contribute to NASA Astrophysics. The grant, which is administered by NASA, can be taken to any participating

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