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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…

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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…

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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…

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  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…

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Toronto (June 19, 2019) – Earlier today, Dr. Bryan Gaensler, Director of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, was granted the 2019 Peter G. Martin Award for Mid-Career Achievement by the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA). The event took place at CASCA’s…

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Dunlap Fellow Jason Hunt has been awarded the 2018 Polanyi Prize in Physics for his work in mapping the Milky Way Galaxy using the Gaia space telescope.

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Yvette Cendes, a graduate student with the U of Toronto and Leiden Observatory, has created a time-lapse showing twenty-five years in the life of SN1987A.

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U of T astronomer, Prof Maria Drout, has added a 2018 Postdoctoral Lectureship Award from Arizona State University to a recent list of honours.

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Astronomers have detected the sonic boom from an immensely powerful cosmic explosion, even though the explosion itself was totally unseen.

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Funding from the PromoScience Program of NSERC and Frederick and Douglas Dickson Memorial Foundation to Discover the Universe.

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