The 2023 astronomy FSP spent a day touring the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. This included Chapman's Peak, the Cape of Good Hope and seeing lots of penguins at Boulders Beach
Professor Aaron Dotter will collaborate with researchers from Belgium and France to deliver innovative models of rotating stars that will unlock new insights in the understanding of planetary evolution.
Dartmouth's 2022 Award winners are, clockwise from top left, Yi-Hsin Liu, Caroline Robertson, Jeremy Manning, Bo Zhu, Ina Petkova, and Alberto Quattrini Li. (Photos by Eli Burakian '00, Robert Gill, and Katie Lenhart)
This fall, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil can be seen as a life-size 3D-printed statue as part of "#IfThenSheCan — The Exhibit", a collection of 120 statues of leading women in science, technology, engineering, and math.
"The rate at which magnetic field lines reconnect is of extreme importance for processes in space that can impact Earth," said Yi-Hsin Liu, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth. "After decades of effort, we now have a full theory to address this long-standing problem."