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National Jamboree October 7-8, 2021
September 8, 2021
The CITA Jamboree is traditionally an annual event with short presentations from all CITA faculty, postdocs, and grad…
Professor Norman Murray named an RSC Fellow 2021
September 7, 2021
Norman Murray is a world-renowned Canadian astrophysical theorist whose high impact work is imbued with powerfu…
CHIME telescope detects more than 500 mysterious fast radio bursts in its first year of operation
June 9, 2021
Written by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office
Scientists with the CHIME Collaboration, including University of…
Dr. Jennifer Y.H. Chan CITA Postdoctoral Fellow, is awarded the 2020 Michael Penston Thesis Prize
Announced today, CITA fellow Dr Jennifer Y. H. Chan was awarded the 2020 Michael Penston Prize from the (UK)…
Former CITA National Fellow, Catherine Heymans, becomes Astronomer Royal for Scotland
May 31, 2021
Astrophysicist Catherine Heymans, former CITA National Fellow, has become the first woman to be appointed…
Professor Juna Kollmeier appointed as CITA’s New Director
March 31, 2021
Professor Juna Kollmeier has been appointed the next CITA Director starting July 2021. She will advance t…
Planetary system with a star that rotates backwards
February 15, 2021
Caption: This artist illustration depicts the exoplanetary system in K2-290. It shows the main star K2-290 A, its…
Professor Norman Murray named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
November 24, 2020
Norman Murray, director of the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Canadian Institute for Theoretica…
CHIME Wins Prestigious Governor General’s Innovation Award
July 16, 2020
The team behind the Canadian-based radio telescope CHIME (the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment) has…
The Hubble Trouble is not a CMB one according to major new Atacama Cosmology Telescope results: The Deep Universe Tension with the Nearby Universe continues
July 15, 2020
From a mountain high in Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers with the National Science Foundation’s Atacama…