New and exciting activities in the
McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences
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Next Week: 2025 McDonnell Distinguished Lecture Series
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| Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor of Astronomy and Physics
Yale University
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MCSS 50th Anniversary Symposium
May 20-22
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In May 2025, the Center will be celebrating fifty years of playing a key role at Washington University through endowed professorships, acquisition of sophisticated instrumentation, support of faculty involvement in space science missions, supporting postdoctoral and graduate student fellowships and undergraduate interns, seeding innovative research, administering visiting scientist programs, and fostering wide-reaching collaborations.
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Join us as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences and look ahead to new opportunities to advance knowledge of our Solar System and our universe.
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Recent News from McDonnell Center Fellows
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Inspired by nature: the messy meandering
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One lesson from Hurricane Helene that flooded North Carolina last fall is that weather events will be increasingly unpredictable and extreme as the world feels the heat from climate change. That’s why Claire Masteller’s approach to studying river systems is about “embracing the variability and messiness of the natural world,” she says.
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Recent Publications by McDonnell Center Fellows
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Adriani, O., Binns, W. R., Israel, M. H., Krawczynski, H. S., Rauch, B. F., Zober, W. V., et al. (2024). The iron and nickel spectra measured with CALET on the International Space Station. International Journal of Modern Physics A.
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Wang, K., Tian, Z., Broussard, M., Neuman, M., Koefoed, P., Pravdivtseva, O., Korotev, R. L., & Jolliff, B. L., et al. (2025). Potassium isotopic compositions and model exposure ages of lunar soils. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta.
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Kinetic and Two-Temperature Physics of Black Hole Accretion Disks and Coronae
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Space Sciences/Astrophysics Seminar
Lia Hankla
University of Maryland
Friday, April 18
9:00am, Compton 241
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| Beyond Particles:
The Elegant Universe of Strings
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St. Louis Astronomical Society April Meeting
Megan Dickson
St. Louis Astronomical Society
Friday, April 18
7:30pm, McDonnell 162
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| Witnessing the Next Decade of Cosmology in Your Kitchen Glassware
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Research Pitch Competition
Tansu Daylan and others
WashU
Monday, April 21
5:00pm, Knight Center
Anheuser-Busch Dining Room
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New Insights into the Formation of the First Black Holes
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McDonnell Distinguished Lecture: Colloquium
Priyamvada Natarajan
Yale University
Wednesday, April 23
4:00pm, Wilson 214
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Unveiling the Invisible Universe with the James Webb Space Telescope
| McDonnell Distinguished Lecture: Public Lecture
Priyamvada Natarajan
Yale University
Thursday, April 24
7:00pm, Whitaker 100
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Submit Videos for the New 3D Monitor
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Have you seen the new holographic fan on the first floor of Rudolph Hall? It's located in an alcove across from the Grossman Mineral Museum.
Thanks to a generous donation from Jerrold and Marsha Grossman, EEPS has acquired this advanced technology. The plan is to highlight students engaged in research.
We would love to have your help with video creation!
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Compiled and edited by Alison Verbeck. Please send any contributions to alison@wustl.edu.
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