Assoc. Professor @UMassAmherst, Assoc. Faculty @DAWNCopenhagen, @YaleAstronomy PhD, mom of three and avid crafter ✨ Thoughts are my own. Pronouns:she/her
Amherst, MA
Joined December 2016
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Kate Whitaker retweeted
Stunning paper led by Andrea Weibel on the arXiv today -- a quenched, massive galaxy at z=7.3! How did this galaxy grow so fast + quench so fast in barely a few 100 Myrs after the Big Bang? #jwst continues to upend our picture of the very early Universe! arxiv.org/abs/2409.03829
Kate Whitaker retweeted
.@RBezanson kicking off #AAS244 with the @KavliFoundation Lectureship - audience hushed and in awe of the JWST UNCOVER data
Kate Whitaker retweeted
The astronomy department of #UMassAmherst is leading the effort on behalf of the Euclid Consortium to understand the earliest days of the universe, and how we got to where we are today.
🔗 Read more here: umass.edu/news/article/umass…
“Lift as you rise” might be the best advice I’ve heard in a long time. Congratulations to the 2024 @UMassCHC graduates! 🎓
Kate Whitaker retweeted
I am so excited to help kickoff our conference #extremegals24 with my co-organizers Benedetta Vulcani and Adam Muzzin. We will hear about the forefront of research in our field and meet friends, old and new. We will be tweeting here about the conference.
Kate Whitaker retweeted
Very excited to have been involved in this paper led by Anna de Graaff that hit the arxiv today, where we present the new record holder the most distant massive quiescent galaxy to be spectroscopically confirmed (for now):
arxiv.org/pdf/2404.05683.pdf
Kate Whitaker retweeted
The UMass community came together for a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event yesterday. With hundreds of people on Metawampe Lawn, we spoke to a few who were deeply affected by the experience, not just of the #eclipse, but of being together. #UMass #UMassAmherst ☀️ 🌑 @CNS_UMass
Kate Whitaker retweeted
You asked and UMass answered! We got questions from across social media about the upcoming #solareclipse on April 8. UMass Astronomy Department Head Daniela Calzetti joined us to answer them. ☀️ 🌑
Get more details about the big day here: bit.ly/3IUZi39
@CNS_UMass
Kate Whitaker retweeted
What happens if you look at the #SolarEclipse without solar eclipse glasses? Dean Michael Fox of @CNS_UMass is a visual neuroscientist who has studied eyes and vision for his whole career. He's here to show you how to save your retinas at #SolarEclipse24.
That feeling when you move 32,000+ unread emails to a local folder (mostly from personal junk mail, only 2,000 are work!)….
This time I will stay on top of it! THIS TIME! 🫣
Kate Whitaker retweeted
As students are receiving acceptance, waitlist, “rejection” letters for PhD programs, I’ve gotten a lot of questions about “why,” and there are a LOT of background gears at play students don’t always know about. I’ll share some and invite #AcademicChatter to add to this:
Kate Whitaker retweeted
We miss you already! A big shout out to the winter conference, "The Physics and Impact of Astrophysical Dust: from Star Formation through Cosmology" last week. #astronomy #dust #skiing #aspen #physics
Amazing day skiing Aspen back bowls with some #jwst astronomical juggernauts. @ENelsonAstro, D. Calzetti, A. Pope, and JD Smith. @AspenPhysics
Now immortalized — the nicest things @desikanarayanan has ever said about me in his beautiful introduction! 🥹…
Thanks again for this amazing opportunity @AspenPhysics!
Check out last week's public lecture with @astrowhit from @umassamherst youtu.be/29HFc5YbX1s?si=SiMw… #astronomy #astrophysics #jwst #jameswebb #galaxies #cosmology
What a fun opportunity to interview with Aspen 82 at the top of Aspen Mountain this morning! #aspen #ajax #sundeck #freshtracks #assprof
Thank you @AspenPhysics!
Kate Whitaker retweeted
Very excited to announce our JWST Cycle 3 proposal was awarded time! Thank you to @astrowhit and the rest of the UNCOVER team for all your hard work to make this happen! Stay tuned for more from the Relic!
So super, duper proud of @secutler on being awarded a JWST Cycle 3 program! 🥹
Kate Whitaker retweeted
A new paper from the UNCOVER team hit the arxiv led by me and including @isskywalker, @astrowhit, and @jacqdanso! In the pursuit of the constraints on early universe galaxy formation, we followed up on a candidate old massive galaxy at z~4 with NIRSpec: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/20…
Kate Whitaker retweeted
#UofT researcher seeks out new insights on the universe's oldest galaxies 🌌 uoft.me/abm
ALT Image shows Jacqueline Antwi-Danso
Kate Whitaker retweeted
To all NASA Postdoctoral Fellows (past and present) as well as the community at large: NASA HQ is conducting the first EVER review of the program. Your input is critical. Please fill this form and share it widely:
forms.gle/AA8joLvd4hkFjxcN6
