Connor Marti, Nicole Ford, Christian Lockwood, and Johnny Inoue are all receiving high honors at graduation with the photographs taken during the last days that they were on campus this spring. Allen Wang is getting honors in math on a joint thesis between math and astronomy. Prof. Pasachoff with… Continue reading »
Nicole Ford ’20 is one of 15 student medalists (out of 355 entrants) for the Chambliss student poster award from the last AAS meeting (Honolulu, January 2020). Her poster is about “Understanding the Epoch of Reionization: Examining Proposed Indicators of Ionizing Radiation Escape in Nearby Star-forming Galaxies”; her advisor… Continue reading »
Attending the 235th American Astronomical Society meeting in Honolulu during January were (front row): Debbie (Maraziti) Skapik (former Lab Instructor and Observatory Supervisor at Williams 1994-1996; now at Friends Central School, near Philadelphia); Amy Steele ’08 (U Maryland grad student); Connor Marti ’20; Anne Jaskot ’08 (Assistant Professor of Astronomy… Continue reading »
On Nov 20th, Dr. Kevin Flaherty and Anneliese Silveyra ’21 were recognized by the North Berkshire Community Coalition with a Neighborly Award at a ceremony in North Adams. The Neighborlies are awards given annually to individuals and organizations across North Adams and Williamstown that have made a positive impact on… Continue reading »
Mercury will make a rare transit across the face of the sun on the morning of Monday, November 11. Mercury will appear as a tiny dot, and viewers would need a safe solar filter to reduce the sun’s brightness by a factor of about a million in order to… Continue reading »
November 11 transit of Mercury to be observed by students and others from Williamstown, by Christian Lockwood ’20 from Emry Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida, and by Prof. Pasachoff from the Big Bear Solar Observatory in California. See http://transitofvenus.info… Continue reading »
Anne Jaskot will be attending and presenting at a Lorentz Center Workshop in Leiden, the Netherlands, “Revolutionary Spectroscopy of Today as a Springboard to Webb.” The workshop focuses on preparing for galaxy observations with the future James Webb Space Telescope and runs October… Continue reading »
https://astrosociety.org/who-we-are/awards/klumpke-roberts-award.html… Continue reading »
Bethany Cobb Kung ‘02Karen KwitterMatthew Hosek ’12… Continue reading »
https://communications.williams.edu/news-releases/5_24_2019_pasachoffnsfgrant/… Continue reading »
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