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TAP Faculty Members Receive Distinguished Faculty Awards
The university is honoring 2 TAP faculty members, among a total of 27 university faculty members, with Distinguished Faculty Awards in recognition of their service to students, colleagues, communities and the university's mission and land-grant values. The TAP...
Nikhil Garuda Receives College of Science Outstanding Senior Award
Each spring, the College of Science recognizes one exemplary undergraduate student per department with the prestigious award: The Oustanding Senior Award. TAP undergraduate student, Nikhil Garuda, Astronomy & Steward Observatory Department, was selected for the...
Eason Wang Receives College of Science Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award
Each spring, the College of Science recognizes one exemplary undergraduate student per department with the prestigious award: The Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award. TAP undergraduate student, Eason (Xusen) Wang, Astronomy & Steward Observatory...
TAP Plasma Physics Initiative Lead, Kristopher Klein Receives Prestigious AAS Solar Physics Division 2024 Harvey Prize
The American Astronomical Society’s Solar Physics Division (AAS SPD) is proud to announce Prof. Kristopher Klein of the University of Arizona as the esteemed recipient of the 2024 Karen Harvey Prize. Established in May 2002, this prestigious award honors the memory of...
TAP Graduate Student Receives 2025 College of Science Service Award
Anna Taylor, Graduate Student in Planetary Sciences Receives 2025 College of Science Service Award Research Interests: Anna Taylor studies atmospheric escape on exoplanets - the process where intense starlight heats a planet's atmosphere, causing gases to escape into...
Eonho Chang Receives 2025 TAP Graduate Student Research Prize
The American Astronomical Society’s Solar Physics Division (AAS SPD) is proud to announce Prof. Kristopher Klein of the University of Arizona as the esteemed recipient of the 2024 Karen Harvey Prize. Established in May 2002, this prestigious award honors the memory of...
Steward Observatory’s Peter Behroozi ranked among most cited researchers in the world
Steward Observatory Peter Behroozi’s work has been cited 15,234 throughout his career, making him one of the most highly cited researchers in his field. Peter Behroozi earned a place on Clarivate’s 2024 Highly Cited Researchers list, in recognition for having produced...
Yangyang Cai Receives 2024 TAP Graduate Student Research Prize
On February 17, 2025, Dr. Yangyang Cai, Postdoc Fellow at Tsung-Dao Lee Institute Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was presented the TAP 2024 Graduate Student Research Prize plaque, and $1,000, awarded for his exemplary research paper, "Ultra-relativistic...
Highest Presidential Honor Bestowed on Steward Observatory Astronomers, Highlighting the Department’s Preeminence in Theory, Data and Computation
Steward Observatory professors Gurtina Besla and Kaitlin Kratter are among this year’s PECASE recipients honored this January for their cutting-edge astronomy research in galaxy evolution and star and planetary formation, respectively. Earlier this month, Steward...
Congratulations Eonho Chang, 2025 TAP Graduate Student Research Prize Awardee
Eonho Chang Bio: I'm a fifth year PhD student in Applied Mathematics working with Prof. Andrew Youdin. My research focuses on hydrodynamic instabilities in protoplanetary disks. In particular, I investigate the role of the Rossby Wave Instability in disk evolution and...