What else have the members of the Department of Astronomy & Planetary Science been doing?
Our faculty, staff, and students are making a difference on campus and around the world. Read about some of our achievements, activities, and successes.
Thanks to David Trilling for keeping track of all these accomplishments!
January 2025
PhD student Shae Raposa has a new paper out Accordion Closed
Deriving the N2–CO Binary Phase Diagram Using Experimental Techniques and Thermodynamics
with many NAU co-authors: Cece Thieberger (PhD student), Anna Engle (recent PhD graduate), Steve Tegler (APS faculty), Gerrick Lindberg (Chemistry faculty), and Will Grundy and Jennifer Hanley (both Lowell faculty and adjunct NAU faculty).
Undergraduate students Cassie Beaumont and Noah Fernandez both gave oral presentations at the January meeting of the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, DC Accordion Closed
This is the largest meeting of professional astronomers held each year. Congratulations and well done!
The NAU athletic department this year has rolled out an alternate nickname: the Astrojacks! Accordion Closed
Also, alternate uniforms, swag, mascots, etc.
Instructional lab manager and all-around amazing resource and problem solver Matt Lydy has helped promote this new identity in a bunch of ways. The photo below featuring some of our telescopes (and Taylor Feldman, for context and scale). Thanks for supporting the university this way, Matt!
