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Left photo: courtesy Jenny Greene; Right photo: then-grad-student Marc Aaronson, with Jay Frogel and Eric Persson, courtesy Palomar Observatory.

The 19th Marc Aaronson Memorial Lectureship

We are pleased to announce that Jenny Greene, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton, has been chosen to be the 19th Marc Aaronson Prize winner. Jenny will visit Tucson in the spring and will deliver a colloquium on February 14, 2019 and public lecture on February 18, 2019. 
 
Professor Jenny Greene is a pioneer in the work of finding the relationship between galaxies and the massive black holes that they host in their centers. A particularly important part of this work...

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Paola Pinilla Receives a 2018 Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Steward Postdoc Paola Pinilla has received a 2018 Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Paola is at center bottom of the image on the award page. Paola will leave for Germany in Summer 2019, and will have the funding to create a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Planet and Star Formation Department, for a five-year period. Congratulations, Paola.

 

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