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  • Kelcey Davis ('21)

    Students Succeeding through the Cal-Bridge Program

    • 20 December 2021
    • By Sarah White

    The Cal-Bridge program helped two Astronomy majors realize their love of research.

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  • UCSD-SDSU Astrophysics Seminar December 3rd 2021

    UCSD-SDSU Astrophysics Seminar December 3rd 2021

    • 29 November 2021
    • By Sarah White

    Title:  “Space Observations for Ultrahigh Energy Astroparticles”   Speaker:  Angela Olinto, Professor, University of Chicago When: Friday December 3rd, 2021 at 3 pm Where: Zoom […]

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  • 2021 John D. Schopp Memorial Lecture

    2021 John D. Schopp Memorial Lecture

    • 19 November 2021
    • By Sarah White

    Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Turtle, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Topic: NASA Dragonfly Mission to Characterize Titan When: Friday December 3rd, 2021 at 5:30 pm […]

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  • Upcoming UCSD-SDSU Astrophysics Seminar Nov 19th 2021

    Upcoming UCSD-SDSU Astrophysics Seminar Nov 19th 2021

    • 18 November 2021
    • By Sarah White

    Title: Directly Imaging Planet Formation Speaker: Eugene Chiang, Professor, UC Berkeley When: Friday November 19th, 2021 at 3 pm Where: Zoom https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/91787709095?pwd=V09oUGRvQUw1N3pObEhKYm4zbHFGZz09 Abstract: For planet […]

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  • SDSU Astronomy Department Receives Gift of $14 Million from Theodore W. and Nhung Lu Booth

    SDSU Astronomy Department Receives Gift of $14 Million from Theodore W. and Nhung Lu Booth

    • 8 March 2021
    • By Kate Rubin

    SDSU’s Department of Astronomy is incredibly fortunate to have recently received a generous donation of $14 million from the estate of Theodore William and Nhung […]

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  • Congratulations to SDSU Cal-Bridge Scholars

    Congratulations to SDSU Cal-Bridge Scholars

    • 23 September 2019
    • By Kate Rubin

    The Department congratulates Yasmin Afshar, Kiley Mayford, Kelcey Davis, Kara Whitaker, and Jose Ruiz Casias on their recently-rewarded Cal-Bridge scholarships to support them as they […]

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  • SDSU Astronomers Discover Third Planet in the Kepler-47 Circumbinary System

    SDSU Astronomers Discover Third Planet in the Kepler-47 Circumbinary System

    • 16 April 2019
    • By Kate Rubin

    SDSU Astronomers have discovered a third planet in the Kepler-47 system, securing the system’s title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds. Using data […]

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  • Astronomy Graduate Student Quentin Socia Revises Important Astronomical Prediction

    Astronomy Graduate Student Quentin Socia Revises Important Astronomical Prediction

    • 13 September 2018
    • By Kate Rubin

    In September 2018, SDSU astronomy graduate student Quentin Socia published a new work refuting the previously published prediction of the merger of two stars.  Stellar […]

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  • Photo by Phil McCarten, © 2017 American Astronomical Society.

    Doug Leonard presents invited plenary lecture at the 230th meeting of the American Astronomical Society

    • 16 June 2017
    • By Kate Rubin

    On June 7, 2017, Professor Doug Leonard delivered an invited plenary talk on the explosion geometry of core-collapse supernovae at the 230th meeting of the […]

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  • Astronomy Department welcomes new faculty member, Kate Rubin

    Astronomy Department welcomes new faculty member, Kate Rubin

    • 23 January 2017
    • By Allen Shafter

    The Astronomy Department is pleased to welcome our latest faculty hire, professor Kate Rubin, who joined our Department this fall. Kate has an expertise in […]

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