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Sunny Park stands in front of a pyramid of Teotihuacan, which has survived many earthquakes over the past two thousand years.
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Warren Awarded NASA Fellowship
June 17, 2020
Graduate student Sasha Warren has been awarded a Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology fellowship by NASA for 2020-2023, awarded for student-designed research projects that contribute to NASA's goals. Congratulations, Sasha!
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EnvironmentalFrontiers 2020 Summer RAs Announced
May 29, 2020
Meet the EnvironmentalFrontiers Summer 2020 Research Assistants! UChicago undergraduate students will work alongside Associate Prof. Elisabeth Moyer to analyze campus data to consider ways to save energy & reduce excess consumption towards a more sustainable future. Read more here.
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Seligman makes New York Times and Wired for ‘Oumuamua study
May 29, 2020
Incoming T.C. Chamberlin Postdoctoral Fellow Darryl Seligman was recently interviewed by Wired Magazine and the New York Times about a new preprint posted on the arXiv, slated to be published in Astrophysical Journal Letters. Seligman posits that all of `Oumaumua's observed properties, most notaby its observed non-gravitational acceleration, can be explained by a significant molecular hydrogen ice mass fraction. Congratulations, Darryl!
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Alum starts Tenure Track at Purdue
May 27, 2020
Department alum Lei Wang (PhD 2016) will be joining Purdue University as an Assistant Professor this August. His new group will focus on large-scale atmospheric dynamics. Lei's University of Chicago thesis, advised by Noboru Nakumura, was "Periodic behavior of finite-amplitude wave activity in the Southern Hemisphere storm track."