News

• June 2012
  • Accepted to MNRAS: Orbital and Physical Parameters of Eclipsing Binaries from the ASAS Catalogue - IV. A 0.61 + 0.45 Solar-Mass Binary in a Multiple System
  
  
• April 2012
  • Accepted to ApJ Letters: The First Maximum-Light Ultraviolet through Near-Infrared Spectrum of a Type Ia Supernova
  • Published in MNRAS: Discovery of Two New Galactic Candidate Luminous Blue Variables with WISE
  • Apurva Oza Defends Undergraduate (Highest) Honors Thesis: Modeling GRB 091018A: Spectral Evolution and Evidence of a Superwind Progenitor
  • Apurva Oza Admitted to University of Virginia Department of Astronomy Graduate Program
  • Apurva Oza Awarded University of North Carolina Department of Physics and Astronomy Sheldon Award for Undergradute Research
  • NC Space Grant Higher Education Course Development Program Proposal Funded at $5,000
  • Justin Moore's NC Space Grant Graduate Research Scholarship Program Proposal Funded at $7,000
  • Eric Speckard's NC Space Grant Undergraduate Research Scholarship Program Proposal Funded at $5,000
  • Rebecca Egger's NC Space Grant Undergraduate Research Scholarship Program Proposal Funded at $5,000
  • Thankful Cromartie's NC Space Grant Undergraduate Research Scholarship Program Proposal Funded at $5,000
  • SSRO APOD: Centaurus A
  
  
• March 2012
  • Published in MNRAS: Multiyear and Multisite Photometric Campaigns on the Bright High-Amplitude Pulsating Subdwarf B Star EC 01541-1409
  • Published in Icarus: Binary Asteroid Population. 2. Anisotropic Distribution of Orbit Poles of Small, Inner Main-Belt Binaries
  • Published in A&A: The Extended Chromosphere of CoRoT-2A. Discovery and Analysis of the Chromospheric Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect
  • UNC's Center for Faculty Excellence 100+ Initiative: Engaging Students in Large Classes Proposal Funded at $6,000
  
  
• February 2012
  • Robert Holmes' NASA Near Earth Object Observations Proposal Funded at $123,000
  
  
• January 2012
  • Apurva Oza's NC Space Grant Proposal Funded at $2,500
  
  
• December 2011
  • Published in ApJ: Eclipses During the 2010 Eruption of the Recurrent Nova U Scorpii
  
  
• November 2011
  • Jupiter Ball at Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
  • Premiere of Morehead Planetarium and Science Center's Solar System Odyssey
  • Published in Icarus: Radar and optical observations and physical modeling of triple near-Earth Asteroid (136617) 1994 CC
  
  
• October 2011
  • Published in MNRAS: SN 2009jf: A Slow-Evolving Stripped-Envelope Core-Collapse Supernova
  
  
• September 2011
  • Endeavors: You'll See Stars
  
  
• August 2011
  • Brad Barlow Defends Doctoral Dissertation: Time-Domain Studies of Hot Subdwarf Stars
  • Published in RAA: Photometric Observations of Three High Mass X-Ray Binaries and a Search for Variations Induced by Orbital Motion
  
  
• July 2011
  • Published in MNRAS: Fortnightly Fluctuations in the O-C Diagram of CS 1246

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Overview

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• Research Statement (references) (10/11)
  
• Teaching Statement (10/11)
  

Research

• Skynet Robotic Telescope Network
  
• Popular Articles:
  
  • GRB Books Review in Sky & Telescope
    
  • GRB/SN Connection Article in Mercury
    

Teaching

• ASTR 101: Introduction to Astronomy: The Solar System
  
• ASTR 101L: Introduction to Astronomy Laboratory: Our Place In Space
  
• ASTR 102: Introduction to Astronomy: Stars, Galaxies and Cosmology
  
• ASTR 111L (EE): Educational Research in Radio Astronomy
  
• ASTR 702: High-Energy Astrophysics
  
• Carolina Courses Online: ASTR 101, 101L, 102
  

Outreach

• Educational Research in Radio Astronomy
  
• Transit of Venus 2012 [Movie from Morehead Observatory Telescope]
• Extinction! [Audio Clip of Shatner Saying My Name]
• Marsfest 2003
• Celestial Sphere/Radio Telescope Lab
• The Stonehenge Observatory