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At its Annual Meeting, USRA s Council of Institutions elected the following four Board members:
Daniel E. Hastings, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was elected Region I Trustee
Wayne A. Scales, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), was elected Region III Trustee
Elizabeth A. Lada, University of Florida, was elected Region IV Trustee
General Lester L. Lyles, United States Air Force, (Ret.) was elected At-Large Trustee.
Dr. John A. Montgomery, Chair of the Board of Trustees said, I am pleased to welcome our four newest members to USRA s Board. They each have a unique background, with diverse experiences that make them an asset to USRA.
RIT Postdoctoral Associate Erika Holmbeck has been selected as one of 24 new fellows for the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship Program.
An RIT postdoctoral researcher has been selected as one of 24 new fellows for the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship Program. Erika Holmbeck, who has been working as a postdoctoral associate with Associate Professor Richard O’Shaughnessy in the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation since fall 2020, will begin as a Hubble Fellow in fall 2021.
Holmbeck’s research focuses on how the universe makes the heaviest elements. Compact binary neutron star mergers, such as those discovered by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration, are believed to produce some of these heavy elements. At RIT, O’Shaughnessy’s group and colleagues at Los Alamos National Lab and the University of Tennessee have been collaborating on ways to consolidate information about these mergers obtained by many d
PHOENIX – A team led by University of Arizona astronomers has discovered the most distant quasar found to date. Researchers hope the quasar, which is more than 13 billion light-years
Advertisement: Quasars are one of the brightest sources of light in the universe and are the nucleus of an enormous galaxy. At the center of the quasar’s galaxy is a black hole that constantly emits matter. J0313-1806 is not only significant for its distance, but it also contains a black hole so heavy that the discovery is making scientists question their hypotheses of how black holes form. “This particular quasar has a black hole of one and a half billion times the mass of the sun, and it is from a time the universe was so young that it barely had time to form these objects,” Fan said. “We’re looking at a big object in a baby universe. So, the question is, how long does it take for these objects to form?”