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

Stephanie Podjed, 2 nd 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.“...

Congratulations to Professor Roberto Onofrio for his recent naming to the Institute of Physics' 2018 list of Outstanding Reviewers. Every...

Graduate student Christina Gilligan was a co-winner in the Guarini School of Graduate Studies three-minute thesis competition. Without...

On April 10, a team of scientists working with the global network of telescopes known as the EHC published the first ever directly observed photograph of a black hole - a dream for astronomers since the early 20th century.

Like much of the known universe — not to mention all that rests beyond it — Marcelo Gleiser eludes straightforward classification. He is a...

Congratulations to Professor Jedidah Isler on her recent video feature on PBS News' Brief but Spectacular — a recurring segment dedicated to...

Every other winter, the department sends a handful of motivated students to Cape Town, South Africa, where they spend ten weeks conducting...

Symmetry Magazine lists 10 seemingly normal words that mean something different in a scientific context.

"I study supermassive, hyperactive black holes called blazars in order to understand how nature does particle acceleration. I use blazars...