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2011

• 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
  
  
• June 2011
  • Adam Trotter Defends Doctoral Dissertation: The Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow Modeling Project: Foundational Statistics and Absorption and Extinction Models [party pics]
  • 20th Annual Educational Research in Radio Astronomy at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, WV
  
  
• May 2011
  • Justin Moore Defends Master's Research
  • Published in MNRAS: A Tale of Two GRB-SNe at a Common Redshift of z = 0.54
  • Published in ApJ: Afterglow Observations of FERMI Large Area Telescope Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Emerging Class of Hyper-Energetic Events
  
  
• April 2011
  • Apurva Oza'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
  
  
• March 2011
  • Published in A&A: Orbital and Physical Parameters of Eclipsing Binaries from the ASAS Catalogue III: Two New Low-Mass Systems with Rapidly Evolving Spots
  
  
• February 2011
  • Published in ApJ: SN 2009bb: A Peculiar Broad-Lined Type Ic Supernova

2010

• December 2010
  • ReeseNews: Robotics Could Revolutionize Astronomy
  • Adam Trotter's Department of Education Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Program Proposal Funded at $9,625
  • Justin Moore's Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research Program Proposal Funded at $1,750
  
  
• November 2010
  • Jupiter Ball at Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
  
  
• October 2010
  • Joined Google Lunar X Prize Team Stellar
  
  
• September 2010
  • North Carolina Science Festival's UNC Science Expo
  • Daily Tar Heel: Morehead Planetarium Debunks the 2012 Myth
  • Published in PASP: Searching for Long-Period Variables in Globular Clusters: A Demonstration on NGC 1851 using PROMPT
  • Apurva Oza's NC Space Grant Undergraduate Research Scholarship Program Proposal Funded at $4,000
  
  
• August 2010
  • Published in Nature: Formation of Asteroid Pairs by Rotational Fission
  • WUNC's The State of Things: The Final Frontier
  • NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grant Proposal Funded at $165,208
  • Adam Trotter's Department of Education Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Program Proposal Funded at $10,625
  • SSRO APOD: M8: The Lagoon Nebula
  
  
• July 2010
  • 19th Annual Educational Research in Radio Astronomy at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, WV
  
  
• June 2010
  • SSRO APOD: Thor's Helmet
  • Appointed Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Associate Professor
  
  
• May 2010
  • Chicago Maroon: Yerkes to Link Up with World Telescopes
  • Justin Moore Wins UNC's Department of Physics and Astronomy Best Teaching Assistant Award
  • SSRO APOD: The Antennae
  • Published in ApJ: Pulsational Mapping of Calcium Across the Surface of a White Dwarf
  
  
• April 2010
  • Apurva Oza Wins Best Poster Award at UNC's Celebration of Undergraduate Research
  
  
• March 2010
  • Mark Schubel Admitted to University of Illinois Department of Physics Graduate Program
  • NC Space Grant Higher Education Course Development Program Proposal Funded at $10,000
  • Adam Trotter's NC Space Grant Graduate Research Fellowship Program Proposal Funded at $7,000
  • Published in MNRAS: Photometry and Spectroscopy of the New sdBV CS 1246
  • NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program Proposal Funded at $1,795,854
    • UNC Press Release
    • UNC College of Arts and Sciences Article
    • Triangle Business Journal Article
    • University Gazette Article
    • Daily Tar Heel Article
  
  
• February 2010
  • Astronomy Days at NC Museum of Natural Sciences
  
  
• January 2010
  • Published in MNRAS: Ultraviolet Study of the Active Interacting Binary Star R Arae using Archival IUE Data
  • UNC-TV's Exploring North Carolina: Our Place In Space