Professor Isler leads Shared Academic Experience for Class of 2023

Professor Isler delivered the 2019 Shared Experience lecture discussing the recent historic black hole shadow image as a metaphor for the pursuit of other unknowns on our journey. (Photo by Robert Gill)

Elisabeth Newton's research group observes exoplanet around young star

Professor Newton's group presented a discovery of a transiting planet larger than Neptune but smaller than Saturn, orbiting one of the brightest young stars known. Aged almost 45 million years of old, the star and its planet could give significant data on how planetary bodies form.

Recent Undergraduate Awards for Blazar Research

Congratulations to Tara Sweeney (’19) and Zion Slaughter (’22) for winning undergraduate awards for blazar research with Professor Jedidah Isler during Summer 2019.

Congratulations to Stepanie Podjed on the Sigma Xi Research Award

Stephanie Podjed, 2nd year graduate student working with Professor Isler, won the Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research Award for her project entitled, “Multi-wavelength High-temporal Cadence Monitoring of Flaring and Quiescent Blazars.“  

Roberto Onofrio Named IOP 2018 Outstanding Reviewer

Congratulations to three-minute thesis winner Christina Gilligan

Marcelo Gleiser Wins Templeton Prize

Prof. Jedidah Isler PBS Feature

South Africa Foreign Study Trip 2019

Department welcomes Assistant Professor Jedidah Isler