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promotion to associate professor with tenure

I received my official letter from the Chancellor at UC Davis that, as of July 1, I will be promoted to associate professor with tenure. I acknowledge and sincerely thank all of my mentors in (astro)physics over the last 18 years who helped me arrive at this point, including (but by no means limited to):

Vatche Sahakian (Harvey Mudd College)
Ann Esin (Harvey Mudd College)
Nels Hoffman (Los Alamos)
Simon Swordy (U Chicago)
Daniel Holz (Los Alamos)
Martin White (UC Berkeley)
Joanne Cohn (UC Berkeley)
Jeremey Tinker (UC Berkeley & NYU)
Frank van den Bosch (Yale U)
Daisuke Nagai (Yale U)
Marla Geha (Yale U)
Nitya Kallivayalil (Yale U & U Virginia)
Phil Hopkins (Caltech)
John Mulchaey (Carnegie Obs)
Josh Simon (Carnegie Obs)
Juna Kollmeier (Carnegie Obs)
Andrew Benson (Carnegie Obs)
James Bullock (UC Irvine)
Risa Wechsler (Stanford U)
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Jenna Samuel awarded NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship

Jenna Samuel

Jenna Samuel, our group’s first graduating PhD student, has been awarded an NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Science Foundation! Jenna will take this fellowship to the Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas, Austin this fall to pursue her project: Modeling the physics of gas removal and quenching in Local Group satellite galaxies with next-generation simulations. Congratulations Jenna!

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Sarah Loebman to start as assistant professor at UC Merced

Sarah Loebman

We are so excited that Sarah Loebman has accepted a faculty position at the University of California, Merced, where she will start as an assistant professor in their Department of Physics in fall 2020! We are doubly excited because, as one of their two inaugural astrophysics faculty, Sarah will start a new astrophysics program within their department. Fortunately for us, she will stay with our group at UC Davis for another year to finish her NASA Hubble Fellowship and Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations Sarah!!

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real job gets real

Having been on leave (and pretending to be just a postdoc) over the last year, today I fully assume my position as assistant professor of physics at UC Davis. [Gulp.]