Congratulations to group member Katherine Carver, who has been selected by UMBC's College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences as a recipient of the Academic Fellowship Program (funded by Merck)! The Academic Fellowship Program is aimed at increasing the number of data scientists from under-represented minorities in the life sciences workforce. The funding will support her research starting Fall 2025.

UMBC News has just highlighted Dr. Foord's RCSA fellowship and successful grant. Check it out here!

Dr. Adi Foord was recently selected as a Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) Scialog: Early Science with LSST Fellow and awarded a grant to study year-1 data from the Vera Rubin Observatory's LSST.
 

Following the first Scialog Fellows workshop in Fall 2024, Dr. Foord’s proposal was one of only eight selected for funding. Her research focuses on building and utilizing a “Dual Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) Finder” to analyze year-1 LSST data, aiming to enhance our understanding of galaxy mergers and supermassive black hole evolution. See RSCA press release here.

UMBC News has just highlighted AXIS's major achievement of being selected for Phase A study! Check it out here, and go AXIS!

Check out our newest results, just posted on arXiv: "Chandra Discovery of a Candidate Hyper-Luminous X-ray Source in MCG+11-11-032"

Dr. Foord's first Co-PI NSF AAG proposal has been recommended! She is excited to work with PI Nico Cappelluti,  and Co-PIs Meg Urry and Dave Sanders, to study SMBH growth in our multi-wavelength Universe.

Check out our new publication published in Universe "Tracking Supermassive Black Hole Mergers from kpc to sub-pc Scales with AXIS"

Congratulations to group member Ashlyn Wright for winning the CNMS Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant in Physics for Spring 2024! Ashlyn will be recognized at the yearly College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences Awards and Recognition Day. 

Check out Dr. Foord's newest article on The Conversation's Curious Kids Series "Could a telescope ever see the beginning of time? An astronomer explains."Curious Kids is a series that lets experts across the country answer questions posed by kids. 

Congratulations to group member Paul Wampler, who has been selected by UMBC's College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences as a recipient of the Academic Fellowship Program (funded by Merck)! The Academic Fellowship Program is aimed at increasing the number of data scientists from under-represented minorities in the life sciences workforce. The funding will support his research over the next year.

UMBC News has just highlighted AXIS's phase A proposal submission, in the article "Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite science team hits major milestone." Check it out!

The AXIS team has just released their suite of white papers to arXiv. Be sure to check out Dr. Foord's lead white paper on Detecing Dual AGN with AXIS, along with the 6 other papers: 

High-z AGN with AXIS

Wandering Intermediate Black Holes with AXIS

Obscured AGN with AXIS

The First AGN Jets with AXIS

Resolving AGN Fueling with AXIS

AGN in Overdense Environments with AXIS

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Go AXIS!

Check out Dr. Foord's newest article on The Conversation's Curious Kids Series "Is time travel even possible? An astrophysicist explains the science behind the science fiction"

Wormholes, failed dinner parties, and cosmic time machines, oh my!

I'm excited to be joining the Physics Department at UMBC at the end of August! I'll be slowly building a team of excellent scientists - stay tuned!