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Blasts of radiation detected every 16 days, which could help explain mysterious bursts of energy from space. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (June 17, 2020) – A Canadian-led team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Toronto and the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, has discovered that a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) originating from a nearby […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (March 2, 2020) – Dr. Allison Man, a Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, has been chosen as one of three Canada-based participants for the fifth cohort of the Homeward Bound program. Homeward Bound is a global 12-month leadership initiative for women with a background in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine). The aim

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  (February 12, 2019) – Dr. Renée Hložek has been awarded the 2020 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics for her contribution to our understanding of the nature, structure, and evolution of the Universe and its initial conditions. Hložek, an Assistant Professor at the Dunlap Institute and the David A. Dunlap Department

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  (February 4, 2019) – Dr. Maria Drout has been awarded the 2019 Polanyi Prize in Physics for her contribution to our understanding of the evolution, influence, and ultimate fate of massive stars. Drout, an Associate at the Dunlap Institute and Assistant Professor at the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics,

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (January 21) – The Dunlap Institute has extended the application deadline for the 2020 Dunlap Institute Summer School. The new deadline is Friday, January 31. Full information can be found here. The Dunlap Institute Summer School is an introduction to astronomical instrumentation that is internationally renowned. The dates for the 2020 summer school

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  (January 8, 2020) – Dr. Jo Bovy has been awarded the 2019 Helen B. Warner Prize for his contribution to our understanding of the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way. Bovy, an Associate at the Dunlap Institute and Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Galactic Astrophysics at the David

Working with members of Canada’s CHIME Fast Radio Burst collaboration, including members at the Dunlap Institute and the University of Toronto, Astronomers in Europe have pinpointed the location of a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) first detected by the CHIME telescope in British Columbia in 2018. The breakthrough is only the second time that scientists

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Toronto (September 5, 2019) – Dr. Renee Hložek, Assistant Professor of Astrophysics at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, has been named a 2019-2021 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. The CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program is a professional skills development program. It supports early-career researchers who show promise to be future research leaders.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto (July 28) – On July 18-20, the first national science communications workshop for graduate students launched in Canada. For two and a half days, fifty graduate students, selected from over 400 applicants, and heralding from twenty-six institutions across Canada, gathered at McMaster University for ComSciConCAN – a fully immersive experience in

  As a board member of the Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy (ACURA), I have been watching closely the recent events at the construction site of the Thirty-Metre Telescope (TMT) at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and consulting with my colleagues at the University of Toronto. The University of Toronto has a strong commitment to the success