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AUI Names New President

AUI Names New President

Dr. Adam Cohen to be President – Associated Universities, Inc. Associated Universities Inc. (AUI) is pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Adam Cohen as the new President of AUI, effective 1 November 2017. Dr. Cohen’s appointment is the culmination of an extensive search conducted by the AUI Board of Trustees. He will succeed Dr. Ethan...

AUI Statement on the August 11th-12th Events in Charlottesville

AUI Statement on the August 11th-12th Events in Charlottesville

AUI STATEMENT ON THE WEEKEND EVENTS IN CHARLOTTESVILLE All of us, of course, were shocked by the scenes in Charlottesville on Friday and Saturday, and by the consequences of this vile domestic terrorism.  As an organization with long-standing roots in Charlottesville we know it as a diverse and welcoming community to all people.  The white...

IMAGE RELEASE: A New Look at the Crab Nebula

IMAGE RELEASE: A New Look at the Crab Nebula

Astronomers produced this dramatic new, highly-detailed image of the Crab Nebula by combining data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum, from the long waves seen by the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to the extremely short waves seen by the orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The Crab Nebula,...

Image Release: ALMA Captures Explosive Star Birth

Image Release: ALMA Captures Explosive Star Birth

Star birth can be a violent and explosive event, as dramatically illustrated in new ALMA images. A pair of adolescent protostars had a perilously close encounter that blasted their stellar nursery apart. Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have examined the widely scattered debris from this explosive event,...