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Graduate student, Hannah Richstein, has been named one of the 35 world-class students receivng the Jefferson Fellowship. The Jefferson Fellowship is the premier graduate fellowship offered at the Darden School of Business, the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and the Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Science.
The night sky is full of clues about the origins of our universe; the challenge is developing technology sensitive enough to see them. Because light from far away sources takes a long time to travel across the immense distances of space, it carries pictures of the universe that reach back to the moment of its creation, and with the help of a $52.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to the Simons Observatory, astronomers like UVA’s Bradley Johnson are working to develop instruments that could help us see those pictures and could give us a window into very beginning of time.
The James Webb Space Telescope has provided scientists with previously unimaginable details of galaxies millions of light years away. Now astronomers including the University of Virginia’s Aaron Evans are using the stunning images and data to study what’s happening at the cores of other galaxies. Read more here: https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-astronomer-details-next-round-science-webb-space-telescope
Ilse Cleeves and Steve Majewski have received a 2022 Research Achievement Award from UVA. Read more here: https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-honors-faculty-their-research-and-...
UVA Today sat down with Matt Pryal, a University of Virginia assistant professor of astronomy, to discuss the success of Artemis I. Read more here: https://news.virginia.edu/content/artemis-i-tees-manned-mission-moon
“Pluto’s huge nitrogen-ice-filled basin, Sputnik Planitia, is a dominant feature on the dwarf planet,” said Dr. Anne Verbiscer, who is a research professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Virginia, along with being the Deputy Project Scientist and a Co-Investigator on NASA’s New Horizons. “It’s the brightest (most reflective) area, with unique composition, and holds clues to the possible existence of a sub-surface ocean.
University of Virginia undergraduate student, Theo O’Neill, along with former students, Jiwon Jesse Han and Catherine Zucker, recently created the first 3-D map of the Local Bubble’s magnetic surface. Read more here.
We are hiring the following positions:
Assistant Professor of Astronomy:
Postdocs:
Maryam Modjaz joins UVa Astronomy as Full Professor after being faculty at NYU.
Rising Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship Program | The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Review of applications will begin January 16, 2023.
Rising Scholar Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Astronomy
The night sky is full of clues about the origins of our universe; the challenge is developing technology sensitive enough to see them. Because light from far away sources takes a long time to... Read»
The James Webb Space Telescope has provided scientists with previously unimaginable details of galaxies millions of light years away. Now astronomers including the University of Virginia’... Read»
