As we settle into the new school year, we're taking a moment to look back at the highlights of the WCA's public outreach programming over 2024-25!
This week the WCA and the Department of Physics and Astronomy hosted the GEESE-ON workshop, bringing together astronomers from across Ontario studying the evolution of galaxies.
New EHT images reveal unexpected polarization flips at M87* that are giving scientists insight into the year-by-year evolution of a supermassive black hole’s ring
Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics researchers Will Percival and Brian McNamara have received funding from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to support their work studying cosmology, galaxy clusters and supermassive black holes.
Dr. Will Percival, distinguished research chair in Astrophysics and director of the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics, has been recognized as a 2025 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His research focuses on cosmology, large-scale structure and data analysis methods in astrophysics.
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has announced its selection of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration as the recipient of the 2026 Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize.
New insight into the laws of nature and advances in quantum technology may soon be possible thanks to a transformational gift from the Dieter Schwarz Foundation. Housed in the Faculty of Mathematics, the Dieter Schwarz Chair will be held by Dr. Achim Kempf, a professor of mathematical physics in the Department of Applied Mathematics at Waterloo and a member of the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics.
Lisa Dang and collaborators are shedding light on the darkest side of lava planets.
WCA Graduate student, Cam Morgan, won the Graduate Student Committee (GSC) award for best talk at the 2025 Canadian Astronomical Society meeting, held in Halifax.
Cam presented his thesis work in his presentation, "Decoding quenching in the Virgo cluster with spatially resolved star formation".
Faculty, postdocs and grad students of the WCA travelled to Halifax this month, to take part in the 2025 meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society.