Judith Irwin is a professor of physics and astronomy at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Her research focuses on gaseous halos of spiral galaxies and she leads the CHANG-ES project. Looking for a new option for a mid-level undergraduate astrophysics course, or a resource for new graduate students who may not have a solid [...]
Benne W. Holwerda is an associate professor at the University of Louisville and specializes in galaxies and galaxy morphology. He has worked on three continents and loves working with students on research and teaching. He is a proud part of the parenting team for a 7th and a 5th grader. Hobbies include running, reading, and [...]
The Rumor Mill ready for the new season is now up and running: Postdoc and Term and Faculty and Staff. The archives from previous years remain available. As a reminder, here the AAS Policy on Postdoc positions: The AAS Council has passed (1988) and reaffirmed (2003) a resolution stating that no postdoctoral position should require a [...]
Sumalatha G. is a biotechnology engineer and a former medical coder. Because of her passion for writing, she is currently working as a Content Marketing Specialist at Typeset. She has penned many articles on academia and scholarly publishing, including open access, peer review, academic SEO, and more. Typeset simplifies the scientific writing process. It is [...]
Allison Kirkpatrick is a professor of astronomy at the University of Kansas. She studies supermassive black holes and their effect on galaxies. She chairs her department’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion committee, and she is a co-Director of the university-wide Multicultural Scholars Program. When I joined the Physics & Astronomy Department at the University of Kansas [...]
The Rumor Mill ready for the new season is now up and running: Postdoc and Term and Faculty and Staff. The archives from previous years remain available. As a reminder, here the AAS Policy on Postdoc positions: The AAS Council has passed (1988) and reaffirmed (2003) a resolution stating that no postdoctoral position should require a [...]
This is a guest post by Travis Metcalfe who founded White Dwarf Research Corporation while he was a graduate student. In 2008, with support from several technology companies, he initiated a nonprofit adopt a star program that funds an international team working on observations from NASA’s Kepler/K2 and TESS missions. More than 20 years after [...]
Emily Moravec is a postdoctoral researcher at the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Science and a support scientist at the Czech node of the European ALMA Regional Center. She is a radio astronomer and her research interests are active galactic nuclei (AGN), radio galaxies, galaxy clusters, and the evolution of radio-AGN. She investigates [...]
Daniel Evans is a former PhD student at Keele University, where he worked on the detection of stellar companions to exoplanet host stars using high resolution imaging. He has spent the last two years as a Python software developer at JBA Risk Management, where he has worked on developing the first flood catastrophe model with [...]
The Rumor Mill ready for the new season is now up and running: Postdoc and Term and Faculty and Staff. The archives from previous years remain available. As a reminder, here the AAS Policy on Postdoc positions: The AAS Council has passed (1988) and reaffirmed (2003) a resolution stating that no postdoctoral position should require a [...]