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January 23, 2025January 23, 2025 By Deana Tanguay

Lamat Fellows Krystal Ruiz-Rocha & Savaria Parrish are 2025 AAS Chambliss Award Winners!

Lamat Alumna Krystal Ruiz-Rocha (Lamat 2016 & 2017) and current Lamat Fellow Savaria Parrish (Lamat 2025) both received Chambliss Awards for their outstanding poster presentation at the 245th American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Maryland, January 2025. Additionally, Lamat Alum Zachary Andalman (Lamat 2022) received an honorable mention for his poster presentations. There were hundreds of student presenters.

March 28, 2023April 2, 2023 By Deana Tanguay

Lamat Alumnus Miguel Montalvo is an AAS Chambliss Student Award Winner!

Miguel Montalvo (Lamat 2020) was one of the 11 undergraduate students receiving a Chambliss Award for his outstanding poster presentation at the 241st American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Seattle, January 2023. Two other Lamat Alumnae Rewa Clark Bush (Lamat 2021 & 2022) and Jay Baptista (Lamat 2022) were among 34 students who received honorable mentions for their poster presentations, out of the hundreds of student presenters.

September 27, 2022April 11, 2023 By Deana Tanguay

Lamat Alumnus Alejandro Vigna Gómez, a Mexican Astrophysicist Studying a Unique Stellar System

Lamat Alumni Alejandro Vigna Gómez is featured in this article highlighting his joint discovery of a unique stellar system with a binary star system within a triple star system.

September 27, 2022September 27, 2022 By Deana Tanguay

Astronomer Ariadna Murguia-Berthier wins 2022 Trumpler Award for Best Ph.D. thesis in Astronomy

Ariadna Murguia-Berthier will receive the 2022 Robert J. Trumpler Award, given annually by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific to a recent recipient of the Ph.D. degree in North America whose research is considered unusually important to astronomy.

July 23, 2022July 23, 2022 By Deana Tanguay

Radio bursts from ‘zombie’ black holes excite astronomers

https://www.science.org/content/article/radio-bursts-zombie-black-holes-excite-astronomers

March 25, 2022March 25, 2022 By Deana Tanguay

Former Lamat Mentor Johan Samsing Awarded ERC Starting Grant

https://nbia.nbi.ku.dk/news/nbia-news-2022/erc-starting-grant-to-johan-samsing/

October 12, 2021October 12, 2021 By Deana Tanguay

Lamat Alumna and Current Mentor, Brenna Mockler, Wins AAUW Fellowship

https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/10/aauw-fellows.html

October 9, 2021November 2, 2021 By Deana Tanguay

Two Lamat Alum, Alejandro Vigna-Gomez & David Aguilera-Dena explain the origin of unusually heavy neutron star binaries

In a new aricle published October 8 in Astrophysical Journal Letters, two Lamat Alum Alejandro Vigna-Gomez, an astrophysicist at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute and David Aguilera-Dena at the University collaborated with Lamat Executive Director Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UC Santa Cruz and other colleaguges to explain the origin of unusually heavy neutron star binaries.