Below you will find a list of our current news and announcements. If you are looking for past ones, please visit our Past News and Announcements page.

Students enjoying the Halloween-themed event at Schueller Observatory “spooky viewing party”
  • October, 27 2023: Students enjoying the Halloween-themed event at Schueller Observatory “spooky viewing party”

2023 News and Announcements

  • January 2024: Prof. Tim Cook will present NAIL:  a Novel, Asynchronous, Integrating, Latching deformable mirror controller (Timothy Cook, Mitchell Bailey, Supriya Chakrabarti, Kuravi Hewawasam and Christopher Mendillo) at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in New Orleans.
  • December 2023: Prof. Cohen will present "The Possible Impact of a Close-in Exoplanet on Type-II Radio Burst Signature" at Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting.
  • November, 21 2023: Mit Bailey will present his literature survey paper/Phd qualifier “Free space communication systems and methods in the near-earth and lunar regimes”
  • November, 11 2023:Congratulations to Lukas Hanson who successfully passed his MS Thesis Defense "Using the Space Weather Modeling Framework to Study the Solar Wind of the Sun and Sun-like Stars”.
  • November 10, 2023: Congratulations to Lukas Hanson who successfully passed her MS Dissertation Proposal Defense in Physics on the title is "Airglow as seen by LITES".
  • November, 7 2023: Congratulations to Sunip Mukherjee for successfully defending his Ph.D. in Physics . The title is: Multi-Instrument, Multi-Location Observation and Modeling of the Upper Atmosphere-Ionosphere.
  • July 2023: Congratulations to Nicholas Sorabella and his advisor, Silas Laycock, on being awarded NASA’s FINESST research grant. Nick is developing a computational model for gravitational self-lensing.