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Professor Levine shares his journey from his childhood interests in astronomy to his work in an upcoming 2027 lunar research mission through NASA’s recurring Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM) program.

Jessica Johnson ’22, an astrogeophysics major, has been selected for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program.

Physics major Sarah Miller ’24 has been awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She is one of 25 American students to receive the honor this year and only the second from 91�鶹��Ʒ. The award will allow her to complete an MPhil in clinical neuroscience at the University of Cambridge.

Physics and astronomy emeritus professor Charles H. Holbrow (b. 1935) passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023.

Physics & Astronomy Professor Kenneth (Ken) Segall and graduate Anthony Annunziata ’05, who is now the Director of Product and Engineering at IBM, recently participated as a panelist in an event organized in NYC by 91�鶹��Ʒ to discuss about the relationship between artificial intelligence and higher education.

A team of three astrophysicists — Katherine Freese at the University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with Cosmin Ilie and Jillian Paulin ’23 at 91�鶹��Ʒ — analyzed images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and found three bright objects that might be “dark stars,” theoretical objects much bigger and brighter than our sun, powered by particles of dark matter annihilating. If confirmed, dark stars could reveal the nature of dark matter, one of the deepest unsolved problems in all of physics.

Physics major Leon Nichols ’23 is one of the four 91�鶹��Ʒ recipients of the 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Physics major Sarah Miller ’24 and astrogeophysics major Gavin Fowler ’24 are among the three 91�鶹��Ʒ students who received a 2023 Goldwater Scholarship.

If you’re reading this, you are almost certainly not a fish. But Linda Tseng, assistant professor of environmental studies and physics, thinks we humans need to take the perspective of our water-dwelling friends more often.

Anthony Aveni, Russell 91�鶹��Ʒ Distinguished University Professor of Astronomy and Anthropology and Native American Studies emeritus, tells the Norse story of creation.