Rochester Institute of Technology graduate student Valerie Rapson was invited to join the American Astronomical Society Astronomy Ambassador program. Rapson, a resident of Greece, N.Y., is a Ph.D.

Ithacans can now enjoy a drink alongside space science education thanks to the efforts of five graduate students in Cornell’s astronomy department. The students are spearheading an “Astronomy on Tap” ...

WASHINGTON — Forty-six undergraduate and graduate students have been selected to represent NASA in their local communities as recipients of the agency’s International Year of Astronomy, or IYA, ...

Eliza Frankel, a University of Wyoming physics and astronomy Ph.D. student, poses with her award-winning poster at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Phoenix, Ariz. in early January.

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Last year, senior Dan Van Noord discovered a subdwarf B binary star, which is akin to winning the astronomy lottery. Out of more than 100 billion stars in our galaxy, it’s estimated that only one ...

Two Alfred University undergraduates accompanied their astronomy professors to the Astronomical Society of New York conference, held at Cornell University. Their work is part of a larger effort by ...

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Alfred University is home to the Stull Observatory and its seven independent telescopes, but relatively few students have chosen to take advantage of those resources in the form of a minor in ...

Her solution? Incorporating artistic assignments into her scientific curriculum — a practice becoming more commonplace within science education, and one with which Wooten has firsthand experience. “In ...