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https://communications.williams.edu/news-releases/5_24_2019_pasachoffnsfgrant/

Ever wonder how many career paths have been taken by Williams alumni who graduated with the same major as you? On Tuesday, May 14, you can find out by joining Eph Connect for a virtual networking hour with your fellow majors across the decades.   Starting at 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific, in less than

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/black-hole-named-powehi-by-hawaii-university-professor/2019/04/11/b62f2978-5cc7-11e9-98d4-844088d135f2_story.html?utm_term=.127892e95a58

“A successful deflection becomes more difficult to execute as warning time decreases,” said Megan Bruck Syal, a planetary defense researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. “For the shortest warning times, robust disruption and dispersal of the fragments may be the only viable option to prevent the impact.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/science/asteroids-nuclear-weapons.html      

Brendan Rosseau ‘19 has been chosen as the winner of the Global Space Congress Competition 2019, which is relevant to his senior thesis on space policy. As part of the prize, he will attend the Global Space Congress (March 19-21) in Abu Dhabi. https://www.globalspacecongress.com/events/global-space-congress-2019/event-summary-ae6d3a25a75a4cb88ea19b02560959fa.aspx

http://www.kdnk.org/post/radio-physics-kevin-flaherty-studies-star-formation

An article on the effect of a total solar eclipse on the terrestrial atmosphere, by visiting scholar Prof. Marcos Peñaloza-Murillo (from Venezuela) and Prof. Jay Pasachoff has been accepted by the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres.  Ross Yu ’19 is writing his senior thesis on similar effects from the 2017 total solar eclipse. which was observed