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Ian Ochs wins highly competitive Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award
Sept. 19, 2023

Ian Ochs, a 2022 graduate of the Program in Plasma Physics in the Princeton University Department of Astrophysical Sciences, has won the 2023 Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award presented by the American Physical Society (APS). The highly competitive honor recognizes “exceptional early-career scientists who have performed…

Vinicius Duarte, Research Scientist, PPPL received Department of Energy, Early Career Research Award
Aug. 15, 2023

Vinicius Duarte, Research Scientist with the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) received an Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy.  The awards are given to “support the research of outstanding scientists early in their careers. The program will support over 80 early career researchers for five years at U…

Jamey Szalay awarded the Early Career Achievement Medal from NASA
Aug. 8, 2023

Jamey Szalay, a Research Scholar with Astrophysical Sciences was awarded the Early Career Achievement Medal from NASA.  “This prestigious NASA medal is awarded for significant performance during the first 10 years of an individual’s career in support of the NASA Mission. The contribution is significant, in that, for an employee who is at…

Princeton University Joins the WIYN Telescope Consortium
July 14, 2023

The Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University has joined the WIYN Observatory as an Operational Partner.  WIYN operates a 3.5-meter diameter optical telescope on the summit of Kitt Peak in the Tohono O'odham Nation outside of Tucson, Arizona, and Princeton astronomers will be granted about 30 nights of observing time…

Rising Senior, Wolf Cukier Lead Author on Paper Discussing the Geminids Meteor Shower
June 21, 2023

Wolf Cukier ’24 and Research Scholar Jamey Szalay have been using observations from the Parker Space Probe to gain understanding of the creation of the Geminids meteor shower.  Cukier and Szalay used data from the probe to model three scenarios and compare them to models from observations made on Earth.  The models reflect three…

NSF Supports Simons Observatory, Professor Jo Dunkley to be Co-investigator
May 19, 2023

On Tuesday, May 9th, The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a $53 million investment in partnership with the Simons Foundation to expand the Simons Observatory in Chile.  The focus of the observatory is the study of the “cosmic microwave background radiation that permeates the universe and contains hidden clues about how the early…

Junior, Cole Meyer Awarded the Outstanding Presentation Award for Princeton Research Day 2023
May 15, 2023

Cole Meyer, junior in the Astrophysics department was awarded the Outstanding Presentation Award for Princeton Research Day 2023!  The presentation, "Estimates of heating rates in the near-Sun environment” was based on Cole’s Junior Paper work with Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, Associate Research…

How to see the invisible: Using the dark matter distribution to test our cosmological model
April 3, 2023

Princeton researchers led by graduate student Roohi Dalal, in collaboration with astronomers at Carnegie Mellon University and various institutions in Japan, announced today new cosmological results from an analysis of deep imaging data from the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey.  Measuring the weak gravitational lensing signal from 25…

Four Undergraduate Astrophysics Majors Win Awards at American Astronomical Society Meeting
March 16, 2023

Junior Jupiter Ding was awarded the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Award for his work presented at this winter’s American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle.  His work was titled “Miscentering of Optical Galaxy Clusters Based on Sunyaev-Zeldovich Counterparts” and his research was with Michael Strauss and Roohi Dalal. …