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Astronomy Student Wins First Michael H. Granoff Outstanding
Graduate Student Award
15 May 2008
Astronomy graduate student Josh Adams is the first winner of the Michael H. Granof Outstanding Graduate Student Award.
The new award, introduced by the University Co-op and the Graduate School, recognizes a graduate student of
exceptional distinction for contribution to knowledge through research, teaching, and service, along with involvement in
professional organizations and campus or community activities, and commitment to diversity.
Michael H. Granof Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Astronomy Undergraduate Award Winners Among Top UT Science Talent
13 May 2008
Undergraduates Kyle Penner and Sarah Miller have been selected as two of 18 Dean's Honored Graduates across the College of Natural Sciences
for 2007-2008. Dean's Honored Graduates are selected from the top 1% of the graduating class, for academic excellence and outstanding
contributions outside the classroom. Sarah Miller was also selected in 2008 as one of 32 Rhodes Scholars from the United States from
a field of 764 applicants.
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World Talent, Texas Tradition
Texas PhD Wins Outstanding Thesis Award from Astronomical Society of the Pacific
McDonald Observatory Press Release
7 May 2008
San Francisco, CA-- The Astronomical Society of the Pacific has announced that Anjum Mukadam will receive the 2008 Robert J.
Trumpler Award. The award is given each year to a recent PhD graduate in North America whose research is considered unusually
important to astronomy. Mukadam completed her PhD in astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin in 2004 under the
supervision of Professor Don Winget.
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Robert J. Trumpler Award
New Class of White Dwarf Star Predicted and Discovered by UT Astronomers
McDonald Observatory Press Release
1 May 2008
Austin, TX-- University of Texas at Austin astronomers Michael H. Montgomery and Kurtis A. Williams, along with graduate student Steven
DeGennaro, have predicted and confirmed the existence of a new type of variable star with the help of the 2.1-meter Otto Struve
Telescope at McDonald Observatory. The discovery will be announced in today's issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters. Called a
"pulsating carbon white dwarf," this is the first new class of variable white dwarf star discovered in more than 25 years.
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