Sarah Pearl '20, a double major in environmental studies and physics from Los Angeles, has been named a Marshall Scholar. She will use the scholarship to pursue two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom, at the University of Reading and the University of Oxford.
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In electing Caldwell as a fellow, AAAS cited his "array of distinguished theoretical contributions to cosmology, especially in the study of dark energy." A theoretical physicist, Caldwell studies the expansion of the universe.
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Dartmouth's Physics and Astronomy Department will cover registration and transportation costs for selected students. If you register (deadline 10/4), contact Profs. Isler or Prof. Newton for more information.
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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)
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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.
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