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Fabienne Bastien was offered both Hubble fellowship and Sagan fellowship. She has accepted Hubble fellowship, and will continue her research in Pennsylvania State University. Congratulations to her!

Kelly Holley-Bockelmann has been elected to serve as Vice-Chair of the AAS Division of Dynamical Astronomy. Her three-year term will progress from Vice-Chair, to Chair, to Past Chair and will begin in April 2014.

Kelly Holley-Bockelmann has been elected to serve on the AAS Council. Her term begins on July 1, 2014. Results of the 2014 AAS Election can be found at: https://aas.org/posts/news/2014/02/results-2014-aas-election

See Vanderbilt News for details: http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2014/01/hypervelocity-stars/

Congratulations to Fabienne and Keivan and our erstwhile colleague Josh Pepper for the Bastien et al. article just published in Nature!   Nature News and Views article link:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7463/full/500405a.html full article link:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7463/full/nature12419.html and the Vanderbilt news release article:http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2013/08/surface-gravity-of-stars/?utm_source=vuhomepage&utm_medium=newsbox&utm_campaign=stassun-gravity-stars

Congratulating Nathan De Lee on being selected for a faculty position at the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK).

Congratulating Joey on the acceptance of his first-author paper, “Occultation of the T Tauri Star RW Aurigae A by Its Tidally Disrupted Disk” by the Astronomical Journal. Congrats to Joey, and thanks especially to Josh Pepper for his supervision and … Continue reading →

In order to understand how magnetic fields work on low mass M dwarf stars, Vanderbilt astronomer, Leslie Hebb, enlisted help from a team of amateur astronomers around the world to support her spectroscopic observations of the eclipsing binary, YY Gem, … Continue reading →

Check the Research News @ Vanderbilt: Engineer, astronomer and geologist receive NSF Faculty Early Career Development awards

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) has released its ninth data release DR9, which has the largest-ever 3-D map of massive galaxies and distant black holes. Vanderbilt University is part of the SDSS-III collaboration. Click Here to check the … Continue reading →