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September 29, 2023September 29, 2023 By Deana Tanguay

Lamat Mentor and UCSC Grad Student Rosa Wallace Everson Celebrated for her Science & DEIB Work

The University of California Regents highlighted Rosa Wallace Everson for her science and mentoring in their latest post for Hispanic Heritage Month. Rosa is a Ph.D. candidate and NSF Graduate Fellow in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz with a focus on high-energy astrophysics and fluid dynamics, specifically in binaries undergoing common envelope evolution. Rosa is also a mentor and advisory board member of the Lamat Institute, a program founded by celebrated astrophysicist and UC Santa Cruz professor Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz to support students from nontraditional backgrounds, historically marginalized communities, and community colleges seeking research opportunities on their path toward graduate school in STEM.

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, 2022March 5, 2023 By Deana Tanguay

Lamat Founder and Executive Director, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, to give NSF Distinguished Lecture Oct. 6

Ramirez-Ruiz, who holds the Vera Rubin Presidential Chair for Diversity in Astronomy at UC Santa Cruz, will speak on “The Lamat Institute: Re-Imagining Leadership and Mentorship in Astronomy.”

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/

February 9, 2022February 9, 2022 By Deana Tanguay

White House honors astronomer Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz with mentoring award

The Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring represents the highest honor bestowed upon mentors who work to expand STEM talent

October 21, 2021October 21, 2021 By Deana Tanguay

SACNAS Selects Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz as a 2021 Distinguished Awardee for Excellence in Science and Mentoring

SACNAS (Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 SACNAS Distinguished Awards. This year’s two awardees, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz and Maria C. Tamargo, have exemplified the SACNAS mission by showing unparalleled dedication to excellence in science, mentoring, and teaching.

October 16, 2021November 2, 2021 By Deana Tanguay

Lamat Executive Director Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz awarded American Physical Society’s Nicholson Medal for Mentoring

Lamat Founder and Executive Director, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, was recognized “for innovations in mentoring, such as the Lamat Program, all of which have demonstrated how members of historically marginalized populations can thrive, lead, and advance scientific enterprise in astronomy and related fields.”

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.

April 14, 2021August 22, 2021 By Deana Tanguay

Lamat Alumnae Awarded 2021 NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowships

Ariadna Murguía-Berthier and Melinda Soares-Furtado (pictured far left and far right) were awarded prestigious NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowships.

March 18, 2021August 22, 2021 By Deana Tanguay

Ariadna Murguía-Berthier Joins CIERA at Northwestern University

Ariadna Murguia-Berthier (UCSC) joins CIERA as a Hubble Fellow to study compact-object mergers using numerical relativity magneto-hydrodynamics.

October 1, 2018October 16, 2021 By Dan White

Lamat Program: Shooting for the stars

Some of the brightest minds in astrophysics are like undiscovered exoplanets. They are out there, but no one knows about them just yet. For some of these students, no one in their family has ever gone to college, let alone measured the masses of neutron stars. Fates and circumstances haven’t aligned with their talents.

Original story from UC Santa Cruz Magazine.