New and exciting activities in the
McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences
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Recent News from McDonnell Center Fellows
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Yajie Yuan takes a computer-powered approach to the cosmos
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| Yajie Yuan, an assistant professor of physics, simulates the enormous energies streaming from black holes and neutron stars.
Modern computers can’t model entire universes, but Yuan has found a way to program approximations of the most enigmatic objects in the cosmos — black holes.
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Konecky receives Dean's Early-Career Research Award
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Bronwen Konecky, associate professor of Earth, environmental, and planetary sciences (title effective July 1, 2025) has received the Dean's Early-Career Research Award. This award recognizes outstanding achievements in research and creative activity by scholars who have recently been awarded tenure. The recipient was selected in consultation with the Arts & Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee after reviewing tenure cases in the current year.
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Speaking science to power
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As a graduate student in the Department of Physics, Bryce Wedig spends a lot of time thinking about dark matter and distant galaxies. But he’s also deeply tuned into more earthly matters, especially the decisions that shape the future of science.
Wedig is the co-president of ProSPER, a WashU graduate student group that promotes science policy and science communication. In April, he took his concerns from WashU to Washington, D.C., first as a participant in the American Astronomical Society’s Congressional Visit Days program and on a second trip with the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering (CASE) Workshop.
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McDonnell Center Fellows in the News
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History Slideshow from MCSS 50th Anniversary Symposium
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| Spencer Foundation Bridge Funding
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In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, the Spencer Foundation has developed a rapid response bridge grant opportunity for impacted scholars, in collaboration with The Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF. Full proposal deadline: TODAY: May 30.
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Recent Publications by McDonnell Center Fellows
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Adams, C. B., Buckley, J. H., Errando, M., Rabinowitz, P.L., et al. (2025). Multiwavelength observation of a candidate pulsar HaLo LHAASO J0621+3755 and the first X-Ray detection of PSR J0622+3749. The Astrophysical Journal, 985(1), 90.
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The Variable High Energy Sky
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St. Louis Astronomical Society June Meeting
Mike Nowak, WashU
Friday, June 20
7:30pm, McDonnell 162
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Compiled and edited by Alison Verbeck. Please send any contributions to alison@wustl.edu.
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