Amidst the celebrations for a 20th century icon in the world of astronomy, one of today's most important leaders will be honored with the prestigious 2010 Gruber Cosmology Prize. Professor Charles C.

A series of lectures on Saturday, May 11, will celebrate the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and the contributions of Winston Ko, who is retiring in June after 10 years as dean of the ...

Princeton University physicist Curtis Callan will give a free public lecture on cosmology and particle physics on Monday, April 25, at 7 p.m. at the University Inn and Conference Center, 611 Ocean ...

Joel Primack, professor of physics at UCSC, and his wife Nancy Abrams gave a series of four public lectures at Yale University in October, and videos of those talks are now available on YouTube. Links ...

Our understanding of the cosmos has come a long way since the early Mesopotamians described a flat, circular Earth embedded in a cosmic ocean. Now scientists build massive telescopes and use highly ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - When Bharat Ratra arrived at Kansas State University in 1996, he wasn’t aiming to win any prizes. But, with excellent work comes recognition. Ratra recently earned that ...

Charles C. Steidel, the Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, will accept the $500,000 Gruber Cosmology Prize from the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation ...

(Link) This study reports the results of the first systematic investigation into Astro 101 students' conceptual and reasoning difficulties with cosmology. We developed four surveys with which we ...

Discussions are underway to select the next speaker for the Elon Musk Public Lecture series, which was last held at Penn in 2023. The Musk lectures began in 2009 following an endowment by 1997 College ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Cambridge astrophysicist John D. Barrow will discuss the relationship between science and religion during an April 1 lecture at Purdue University. Barrow's talk, entitled "The ...

Bruno Latour, Professor Emeritus at Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), received the 2021 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for his radically re-examining “modernity” by developing a ...