March 2025 – First light for Simons Observatory Large Aperture Camera!

 

 

 

January 2025 – Graduate student Alex Reda’s holography paper chosen by AAS publishing for an interview : Youtube interview!

January 2025 – CHIME team wins the Buchalter Prize for groundbreaking work in cosmology!

November 2024 – Successful drone flights with new digital calibration source over our local 3m radio testbed!

 

Sept 2024 – graduate student Sanah Bhimani graduates, off to a postdoc at University of Chicago!

 

 

 

 

July 2024 – graduate student Will Tyndall graduates, off to a postdoc at McGill University! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 2024 – Year 3 of radio astronomy in the Pathways to Science program!

 

 

 

June 2024 – First light for Simons Observatory Small Aperture Camera #1!

 

July 2023 – graduate student Lauren Saunders graduates, off to a postdoc at Fermilab!

 

 

 

 

July 2023 – Another successful Pathways to Science event!

 

 

 

 

Nov 2022 – Successful drone flights at CHIME!

 

 

 

 

July 18-22, 2022 : We had a wonderful Pathways to Science weeklong event, special thanks to grad student Will Tyndall for designing the lab and undergrads  Audrey Cesene, Audrey Whitmer, Ana Maria Melian, and Spencer Greenfield for ‘TAing’! The labs were based on the fantastic DSPIRA program at West Virginia University.

 

March 4, 2022 (and May 23, 2022): Congratulations Dr. Emily Kuhn on a successful thesis defense, graduation, and receiving a NASA NPP Postdoctoral Fellowship!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feb 2, 2022: CHIME results (Detection of Cosmological Neutral hydrogen with CHIME) are out (and eventually written up in a  Scientific American article !)

November 16, 2021: CHIME FRB team receives Berkeley Prize!

Oct 31, 2021 : Have a Drone-tastic Halloween! (special thanks to Maile Harris for the drone-o-lanterns!!)

Oct 2021: Newburgh Lab team gets expanded by one fuzzy member, welcome Dante the kitty to the Cary, Brinkley, and Etta team:

 

 

Sept & Oct 2021: Measuring prototype HIRAX dish beams at GBO

 

November 4, 2020: Nature article linking FRB to Galactic Magnetar (used holography data for fluence estimation)

March 2020: Flying the drone at Brookhaven National Lab to measure the BMX beams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February 2020: Periodic FRB makes front page of CNN! CNN – Periodic FRB

October 2019: Flying drones at OVRO

 

 

October 2019: Emily and Ben measuring feed beam maps at JPL

 

 

August 2019: Thermometry assembly COMPLETED! Thanks Sanah!

July 2019: Pathways to Science — Telescopes Edition!

Emily, Ben, and Maile – Cryogenic RF test beds: Before

Emily, Ben and Maile – Cryogenic RF test beds: After

 

 

February 2019: Front page of Nature! (and NYTimes science article )