Dear all,
It's the last week of classes for this
academic year! This also means that this is the last weekly email to go
out until autumn quarter. Many members of the Department are still
around during summer feel free to email or stop by with questions.
Congratulations to the Department's softball team, Infrared Sox lead by Dr. Chris Laws for being the Intramural Sports Champions!
John Baer Prize Award: Join
us at Thursday's colloquium to congratulate our two undergraduate award
winners for the Astronomy Department's John Baer Prize for excellence
in academics and/or research. The awards will be given at the very
beginning of colloquium in PAA A102.
Spring Cleaning Thanks!: A
BIG thank you to all of the undergrads that showed up for our spring
cleaning of the computer lab, study area and telescope dome. It all
looks fantastic and we had fun while cleaning! Please be sure to keep
these areas as clean as possible.
Graduation Congratulations! Congratulations to all of this year's graduates. Be sure to congratulate your peers
as you see them in the computer lab and in your classes. This year we
have 27 students graduating making the UW one of the (if not THE)
largest undergraduate astronomy programs in the US! For those of you
graduating, please remember to return your building keys and clean up
your files on your astronomy directories.
Summer Building Permits: If
you will be around this summer, be sure to go to the Astronomy main
office and pick up your summer quarter building permits. These will be
available starting June 17.
Astro Lunch: This
Wednesday at Noon in the reading room (PAB B356A), Dan Taranu (Univ of
Toronto) will give a talk on "Mergers in Galaxy Groups". Join us for
this informal lunch talk and feel free to bring your lunch!
Colloquium: Thursday at 4pm in PAA A102,
Miguel Morales (UW Physics) will give a talk on "Peering through the
Epoch of Reionization Window with the Murchison Widefield Array". Join
us at 3:45pm in the foyer for coffee, tea and cookies. Last colloquium
of the year!
Page O'Announcements: To avoid spamming you all, I post random announcements on a blog. I'll keep this updated over the summer as well. http://pageoannouncements.blogspot.com/
Have a wonderful summer!
Best,Sarah
