{"id":157903,"date":"2022-04-20T14:58:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T00:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=157903"},"modified":"2022-04-20T14:58:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T00:58:22","slug":"astronomy-graduates-students-earn-top-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/04\/20\/astronomy-graduates-students-earn-top-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy graduates, students earn top honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_145519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145519\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/manoa-ifa-coconuts-2b.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of the COCONUTS-2 planetary system\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/manoa-ifa-coconuts-2b.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/manoa-ifa-coconuts-2b-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/manoa-ifa-coconuts-2b-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-145519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>IfA<\/abbr> alumnus <abbr>ZJ<\/abbr> Zhang led team\u2019s discovery of exoplanet COCONUTS-2b. Credit: B. Bays (<abbr>SOEST\/UH<\/abbr>)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A plethora of graduate students and alumni from the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/\">Institute for Astronomy<\/a> are being recognized for their outstanding contributions to astronomy and have earned an array of awards and fellowships.<\/p>\n<h2>Postdoctoral fellowships<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ashley Chontos<\/strong> (Exoplanets, Henry Norris Russell Fellow, Princeton University, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Student Excellence in Research Award at the doctoral level)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Tucker<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/06\/20\/astronomy-graduate-students-worldwide-recognition\/\">Department of Energy Fellowship<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ccapp.osu.edu\">Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics Fellow<\/a>, Ohio State University)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ryan Dungee<\/strong> (Astronomical Instrumentation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunlap.utoronto.ca\/dunlap-fellowship\/\">Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellow<\/a>, University of Toronto)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zach Claytor<\/strong> (postdoctoral researcher, University of Florida)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Graduate student awards<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Suchitra Narayanan<\/strong> (Sulfur chemistry in planet-forming regions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsfgrfp.org\">National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program<\/a> award)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rena Lee<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsfgrfp.org\">Graduate Research Fellowship Program<\/a> award)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jason Hinkle<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/honolulu.arcsfoundation.org\">Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Fellow<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Miles Lucas<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/honolulu.arcsfoundation.org\">Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Fellow<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Alumni Fellowships<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Z. J. Zhang<\/strong> (Extrasolar planets, Sagan Fellow through NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stsci.edu\/stsci-research\/fellowships\/nasa-hubble-fellowship-program\">Hubble Fellowship Program<\/a>, University of California Santa Cruz)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joel Ong<\/strong> (Asteroseismology, 2022 NASA Hubble Fellow, <abbr>UH<\/abbr>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This work is an example of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s goal of <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf#page=20\">Enhancing Student Success<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf#page=25\">Excellence in Research: Advancing the Research and Creative Work Enterprise<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr>PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), two of four goals identified in the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf\"><em>2015&#8211;25 Â鶹´«Ã½<\/em><\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr>PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), updated in December 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumni and graduate students of the Institute for Astronomy receive awards and fellowships I for their outstanding contributions to astronomy.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[679,34,1363,660,9],"class_list":["post-157903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-alumni-recognition","tag-astronomy","tag-manoa-research","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157906,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157903\/revisions\/157906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}