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Center photo courtesy NASA/JPL=Caltech

Krause and Eifler Each Win DOE Early Career Research Awards

We learned on August 1, 2019,  that two of our newest faculty, Elisabeth Krause and Tim Eifler, have each won a Department of Energy Early Career Research Award. They will each receive $150000 per year for five years, "to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during the crucial early career years, when many scientists do their most formative work." You can read the UA press release HERE and the DOE announcement...

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Ruth McCutcheon

We are sad to tell you that our friend and colleague, Ruth McCutcheon, the Director of Development for the Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory, passed away on July 29, 2019, after a courageous battle with cancer. We offer our deepest condolences to her children Grace and Henry, and to her parents Jim and Martha McCutcheon. Ruth was a leader in our efforts to connect with public and philanthropic contributors supporting the Department and Steward Observatory.  Her ability to build positive relationships between individuals and communities will be greatly missed by all of us.

Ruth, with the help of her family and friends, recently created the Ruth McCutcheon Steward Observatory Postdoctoral Fellows Research Endowment to help support the research of our Steward Observatory Prize...

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