Nov 2023: VVO outreach upgrades highlighted in Inclusion in STEM newsletter
Oct 2023: Paper on RZ Psc accepted for publication
Authors include Hughes, Kittling
Oct 2023: Mansell presents research at KNAC symposium
Aug 2023: Hughes is PI of two A-ranked ALMA programs in Cycle 10
Jun 2023: Hughes is PI of NSF AST RUI grant
May 2023: Fehr is co-recipient of Wesleyan Astronomy Littell Prize
May 2023: Hughes awarded Wesleyan’s Binswanger Prize for teaching
Mar 2023: Fehr, Lewis, Nederlander, and Vizgan awarded NSF GRFPs
Dec 2022: Lewis awarded NASA CT Space Grant Student Travel Grant,
Rumsfeld awarded Undergraduate Scholarship
Oct 2022: Paper on ALMA observations of HD 106906 accepted for publication in ApJ!
Authors include Fehr, Hughes, Marino, Ackelsberg, Kittling
Sep 2022: Hughes awarded funding from Brinson Foundation to hire prize postdoctoral fellow
Sep 2022: Fehr profiled in the Argus
July 2022: Hughes is co-PI on ARKS large program, ALMA Cycle 9
July 2022: Wesleyan hosts the Northeast Star and Planet Formation Conference
July 2022: Paper on collisional cascade in AU Mic accepted for publication in ApJ!
Authors include Vizgan, Hughes, Carter
June 2022: Vizgan’s Fulbright year profiled in Wesleyan and the World blog
May 2022: PPVII chapter including debris disk review posted on arXiv
Authors include Hughes; acknowledgments include Readling, Kittling
Mar 2022: Fehr is awarded a Goldwater Scholarship
Dec 2021: Fehr, Lewis, Nederlander awarded NASA CT Space Grant Student Travel Grants
Jul 2021: Klusmeyer’s paper on search for molecules in 49 Ceti accepted for publication in ApJ!
Authors include Klusmeyer, Hughes
May 2021: Vizgan awarded Fulbright fellowship to study abroad in Denmark
May 2021: Vizgan awarded Wesleyan Astronomy Littell Prize
May 2021: Delamer defends MA thesis on multiwavelength analysis of 49 Cet dust
Congratulations, Megan!
May 2021: Fehr, Lewis, Rumsfeld awarded CT Space Grant Undergraduate Research Fellowships
Nederlander and Grajales awarded CT Space Grant Undergraduate Scholarships
Jan 2021: Paper on the gapped debris disk around HD 206893 accepted for publication in ApJ!
Authors include Nederlander, Hughes, Fehr
Jan 2021: Delamer, Fehr, Lewis, Nederlander, and Vizgan present research
at 237th AAS meeting
May 2020: Marino graduates with BA degree, begins MA year
Apr 2020: Vizgan awarded Chambliss Medal for REU work in Copenhagen
Jan 2020: Marino presents research at 235th AAS meeting in Honolulu, HI
Oct 2019: Marino and Nederlander present research at KNAC symposium
Jul 2019: Marino presents research at McNair conference in Los Angeles, CA
May 2019: Hughes is promoted to associate professor with tenure
May 2019: Klusmeyer defends MA thesis on deep molecular line survey of 49 Cet
Congratulations, Jessica!
May 2019: Powell defends MA thesis on molecular content of Orion binary
Congratulations, Jonas!
Apr 2019: WesWIS is Wesleyan’s student organization of the year!
Mar 2019: Paper on vertical structure of AU Mic accepted for publication in ApJ!
Authors include Daley, Hughes, Carter, Flaherty, Lambros
Jan 2019: Klusmeyer wins Chambliss Award for her AAS poster.
Congratulations, Jessica!
Jan 2019: Klusmeyer and Garcia present at AAS in Seattle, WA
Nov 2018: Hughes forms a new small body and adds it to the Solar System.
Occasional contact binary observed.
Aug 2018: Hughes is PI of a high-priority project in ALMA Cycle 6
May 2018: Marino is awarded NASA CT Space Grant Community College Transfer
Scholarship
May 2018: Lambros defends MA thesis on search for molecular gas in debris disks
Congratulations, Zach!
May 2018: Carter defends MA thesis on Band 9 observations of AU Mic
Congratulations, Evan!
Apr 2018: Daley earns high honors for his BA thesis on AU Mic
Congratulations, Cail!
Mar 2018: Paper on turbulence in TW Hya accepted for publication in ApJ!
Authors include Flaherty, Hughes
Feb 2018: Hughes selected as a 2018 Cottrell Scholar
Feb 2018: Hughes releases Debris Disks: Structure, Composition, Variability
to appear in Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Jan 2018: Carter, Daley, Flaherty, Hughes, Lambros, and Powell present their
research at the annual AAS meeting in National Harbor, MD
Oct 2017: Powell is awarded CT Space Grant Undergraduate Research Fellowship,
Undergraduate Scholarship, and Undergraduate Travel Fellowship
Daley and Lambros awarded Undergrad Travel Fellowships
Aug 2017: Flaherty is PI of two high-priority ALMA projects in Cycle 5
Hughes is PI of three high-priority ALMA projects in Cycle 5
Jun 2017: Paper on 3-D turbulence constraints accepted for publication in ApJ!
Authors include Flaherty, Hughes, Rose
May 2017: Press release on gorgeous Fomalhaut image
Apr 2017: Factor’s paper on d216-0939 accepted for publication in AJ!
Mar 2017: Paper on 49 Ceti accepted for publication in ApJ!
Authors include Hughes, Lieman-Sifry, Flaherty, Daley
Mar 2017: Hughes is interviewed on WBUR about female computers.
Oct 2016: Space Nights and Pedagogy Seminar featured on ENGAGE blog
Aug 2016: Press release on Lieman-Sifry’s paper on gas in debris disks
Aug 2016: Flaherty and Hughes are PIs of 2 top-priority ALMA Cycle 4 programs
Jun 2016: Lieman-Sifry’s paper on debris disks in Sco-Cen accepted
for publication in ApJ!
Mar 2016: Press release on gorgeous ALMA TW Hya image
Feb 2016: Hughes forms a new small body and adds it to the Solar System
Feb 2016: Flaherty presents at AAAS meeting
Jan 2016: Flaherty’s paper on HD 141569 accepted for publication in ApJ!
Jan 2016: Hughes & Othon host CUWiP conference at Wesleyan
Dec 2015: Astronomical Pedagogy seminar featured on ENGAGE blog
Oct 2015: Flaherty’s first radio paper accepted for publication in ApJ!
Steele’s masters thesis paper accepted for publication in ApJ!
Oct 2015: Daley and Rose present at KNAC student research symposium
Sep 2015: WesConnect and Argus articles about Hughes’ Bok Prize
Sep 2015: Shanahan featured in APS article about Inclusive Astronomy
Aug 2015: Othon and Hughes awarded grant from Petit Family Foundation
to support the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
May 2015: Factor profiled in WesConnect
May 2015: Lieman-Sifry is co-recipient of Littell Prize for excellence in astro
Congratulations, Jesse!
May 2015: Factor defends MA thesis on protoplanetary disk in Orion Nebula
Congratulations, Sam!
Apr 2015: Factor, Lieman-Sifry, and Hughes profiled in the Argus
Mar 2015: Daley awarded CT Space Grant Research Fellowship
Hughes is PI of Faculty Travel Grant and STEM Education Grant
Feb 2015: Hughes awarded Harvard astronomy’s Bok Prize
Jan 2015: Factor and Lieman-Sifry present thesis research at AAS meeting
Dec 2014: Hughes discusses planet formation on WNPR
Dec 2014: Press release on swarms of Plutos around HD 107146
Nov 2014: Lieman-Sifry awarded scholarship for work on 49 Ceti
Nov 2014: Factor awarded travel grant for work on Orion proplyd
Oct 2014: Press release on magnetic fields in planet-forming disks
Jul 2014: Lieman-Sifry and Zachary present in summer research poster session
May 2014: Steele awarded prize for excellence in advanced astronomy classes
Apr 2014: Hughes awarded NSF grant for research on planetary system formation
Apr 2014: Steele defends MA thesis on debris disks around Sun-Like stars
Congratulations, Amy!
Apr 2014: Flaherty is PI of an ALMA filler project for Cycle 2;
Hughes is PI of a “highest-priority” ALMA project
Mar 2014: Press release on gas in the beta Pictoris debris disk
Mar 2014: Press release on “Death Stars” in the Orion Nebula
Mar 2014: Encalada awarded a Goldwater Scholarship
Congratulations, Frankie!
Jan 2014: Steele presents poster on thesis work at AAS meeting;
Hughes presents results of 2013 CSWA demographics survey
Nov 2013: Encalada represents KNAC at CUR REU student symposium
Nov 2013: Encalada speaks at KNAC Symposium; Harney presents a poster