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Meg Urry awarded the Inaugural Distinguished Career Prize from the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the AAS

January 17, 2023
Yale’s Meg Urry has won the 2023 Distinguished Career Award from the American Astronomical Society’s High Energy Astrophysics Division. Yale astrophysicist Meg Urry is the...

Yale’s van Dokkum honored for developing novel telescope

January 17, 2023
Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum has received the Royal Astronomical Society’s Jackson-Gwilt Medal for innovations in instrumentation. Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum...

London Cooper-Troendle successfully defends thesis “First Measurement of Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged Current Triple Differential Cross Section on Argon”

January 13, 2023
On January 9, 2023, London Cooper-Troendle successfully defended the thesis, “First Measurement of Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged Current Triple Differential Cross...

Kaicheng Li successfully defends thesis, “Searching for the Electron Neutrino Anomaly with the MicroBooNE Experiment Using Wire-Cell Reconstruction”

January 12, 2023
On December 5, 2022, Kaicheng Li successfully defended the thesis “Searching for the Electron Neutrino Anomaly with the MicroBooNE Experiment Using Wire-Cell...
An artist’s conception shows the late-stage merger of two galaxies known together as UGC 4211 and its two central black holes. Photo: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), M. Weiss (NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Meg Urry, "Setting the table for a pair of hungry black holes"

January 10, 2023
A team of astronomers including Yale’s Meg Urry has discovered two supermassive black holes growing simultaneously near the center of a recently merged galaxy. Astronomers...