The BDNYC team is pleased to announce that Rocio Kiman will be defending her PhD dissertation on July 16, 2021, and has accepted postdoc positions at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara and the California Institute of Technology.
Category Archives: Group Activities
BDNYC Members Help Lead Pilot Education Program CosmoAmautas
No matter where we live in the world, to look up at the night sky and wonder about our place in the universe is human. “We are all looking at the same sky,” says Lisseth Gonzales Quevedo, a Bachelor of Physics at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) in Lima, Peru. It is through this inherently human fascination for the universe that two BDNYC members are helping to bring scientific thought to the children and youth of Peru.
BDNYC Members Announce Grad School Decisions
The BDNYC team is delighted to share the graduate school decisions of three of our members: Elena Litvinova Mitra, Jose I. Adorno, and Austin Rothermich.
Brown Dwarf-Inspired Mural Painted in Brooklyn, NY
In a celebratory tribute to women in science, passersby to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City can now enjoy a visually stunning and AR-enabled mural inspired by the research of BDNYC co-founder Dr. Jackie Faherty, and our very own enigmas of the Galaxy—brown dwarfs.
Two BDNYC Alumni Awarded NSF GRFP Fellowships
The BDNYC group is excited to congratulate two alumni members on their National Science Fellowship (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awards! Victoria DiTomasso and Allison (Allie) McCarthy have both won NSF GRFP fellowships for the 2021 award year.
BDNYC at AAS 235
The group BDNYC is going to be presenting at the meeting AAS 235 amazing projects. Checkout the talks, posters and iposters and the dates they are going to be presented.
Click more to see the posters from the group.
BDNYC at AAS 231
Last January, the group BDNYC was at the meeting AAS 231 presenting amazing projects.
Some news: Eileen Gonzales (graduate student) won the Graduate Student Honorable Mentions in the AAS 231 Chambliss Astronomy Student Achievement Awards competition for her poster! Congratulations Eileen! Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi (Kalbfleisch Postdoctoral Fellow), Ellie Schwab (Helen Fellow, AMNH) and Jackie Faherty (AMNH) presented for the first time in AAS an iPoster. Emily Rice (CSI, AMNH) had a successful Startorialist BOOTHtique with awesome stellar goodies!
Click more to see the posters from the group.
BDNYC at AAS 229
It’s time for the 229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society! A number of BDNYC members are there to present talks and posters so be sure to check them out! In this post, we list the times and dates. We’ll be updating this with links to the posters as well once the conference is over.
In addition to presentations, our own Kelle Cruz is running for AAS Council. You can find her statement here.
BDNYC Summer 2016
Summer is always a special time for BDNYC because it’s when we have the most time to dedicate to research and spending time with each other! This summer, the group has students from Hunter College, the College of Staten Island, the Graduate Center, Columbia, and Barnard. I’m also proud to say that the SDSS Faculty and Student Teams (FAST) initiative is now supporting our students in addition to AstroComNYC and our NASA and NSF grants. Things are busy, but we took a second at the end of group meeting yesterday to take a picture:
BDNYC at Cool Stars 19
The 19th meeting of the Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun (aka, Cool Stars) will be taking place in a weeks time and BDNYC will be there! If you’ll be joining Cool Stars in Uppsala, Sweden, here are the various places you can meet BDNYC members and learn about our science.