New and exciting activities in the
McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences
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Gateway to the Future
Celebrating 50 Years of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences
NEXT WEEK: May 20-22, 2025
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Next week, 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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Congratulations to all of our graduating students!
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Jason Bub (Piarulli)
Emily Culley (Jolliff)
Andrew Flaim (SU25) (Konecky)
Patrick Matulka (Wiens)
Alessandro Mauceri (SU25) (Konecky)
Emily Millman (Catalano)
Takuya Okawa (Ferrer)
Nicole Rodriguez Cavero (H. Krawczynski)
Gabrielle Adams (Lodders)
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Recent News from McDonnell Center Fellows
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Welcome Malee Alway. She is the new Electronic Fabrication Specialist in the Department of Physics. She will be responsible for developing, assembly, testing, and operating state-of-the-art electronic systems that are key to our cosmic-ray, gamma-ray and X-ray instrumentation.
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Dean’s Award for Graduate Research Excellence
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Takuya Okawa was named a semifinalist for the Dean’s Award for Graduate Research Excellence, which recognizes graduate students’ outstanding achievements in research, scholarship, or creative practice. He studies astrophysical probes of hypothetical elementary particles called axions and sterile neutrinos, and physics of inflation. After completing his PhD, he has accepted a postdoc position at SISSA, the International School for Advanced Studies as the IFPU (Instutute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe) fellow.
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Recent Publications by McDonnell Center Fellows
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Yen, C., Jolliff, B., Carpenter, P., Ogliore, R., et al. (2025). Magnesian-suite volcanism and ancient crust building on the Moon 4.25 billion years ago. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 662, 119395.
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Exploding and Colliding Stars
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Extreme Planets
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Astronomy on Tap St. Louis
Nicole Osborn & Nathan Whitsett, WashU
Tonight, Friday, May 16
7:00pm, Urban Chestnut Brewery
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| The Digital Age of Astronomy
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St. Louis Astronomical Society May Meeting
A panel of SLAS members will share their experiences using different types of telescopes
Tonight, Friday, May 16
7:30pm, Wilson 214
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Compiled and edited by Alison Verbeck. Please send any contributions to alison@wustl.edu.
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