Feb 20, 2007
Anatoly Spitkovsky awarded Sloan Research Fellowship, along with four other Priceton faculty members and one former department postoc

Feb 13, 2007
Astronomers discover smallest planet outside solar system

Feb 9, 2007
Distant Quasars Live in Massive Dark Matter Halos, SDSS press release

Oct 13, 2006
Alice Shapley awarded Packard Fellowship

Mar 16 2006
New Three Year Results on the Oldest Light in the Universe from WMAP
(click here for Press Release)

Jan 10 2006
NASA honors John Bahcall with Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal
(click here for photo of wife Neta and daughter Orli with Award)

Jan 27 2005
Professor James E. Gunn awarded The Crafoord Prize 2005 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
"for contributions towards understanding the large-scale structure of the Universe"
(click here for a photo from our Feb 1, 2005 celebration)

Dec 18 2003
SIRTF renamed Spitzer Space Telescope
(click here for Lyman Spitzer video)
(click here for remarks from John Bahcall)

Oct 20 2003
Logarithmic Maps of the Universe
by J. Richard Gott and Mario Juric