Honors and Recognition
Honors Spotlight:
Caitlin M. Casey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Astronomy
College of Natural Sciences
Recipient of the RCSA Cottrell Scholars Award
The Research Corporation for Science Advancement names Caitlin Casey as the recipient of the Cottrell Scholars Award for her project, Diverse Perspectives: The Impact of Dust and Gas on Cosmic History and Equity-Minded Inquiry-based Astronomy. The Cottrell Scholar (CS) program champions the very best career teacher-scholars in chemistry, physics and astronomy by providing significant discretionary awards for research. Dr. Casey’s research focuses on galaxy formation and evolution, from the earliest times after the Big Bang to the present day. In particular, she investigates the most massive and luminous galaxies in the Universe, which form stars at rates several hundreds of times higher than our own Milky Way.
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- Nobel Prize
- Pulitzer Prize
- National Medal of Science
- National Medal of Technology and Innovation
- National Academy of Education
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships
- Members and Fellows of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences
- Members of the National Academies
- American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare
- Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers
- Vannevar Bush Award
- Charles Stark Draper Prize
- Enrico Fermi Award
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators
- Japan Prize
- MacArthur Fellows Program
- Prix de Rome Award
- Alan T. Waterman Award
- Welch Foundation Awards
- Wolf Prize