Created by alumni Martha Stahr Carpenter (M.A. 1943;Ph.D. 1945) in honor of her thesis advisor, the late Robert J. Trumpler. The Berkeley Trumpler Award will be given to one or more high-achieving graduate students per year in recognition of academic excellence and outstanding record of involvement in the department or wider astronomical community.
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2024 |
Aliza Beverage (Graduate) (Astronomy) Nick Choksi (Graduate) (Astronomy) Sergiy Vasylyev (Graduate) (Astronomy) |
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2023 |
Chris Moeckel (Graduate) (Earth & Planetary Science) Kishore Patra (Graduate) (Astronomy) |
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2022 |
Nathan Sandford (Graduate) (Astronomy) |
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2021 |
Casey Lam (Graduate) (Astronomy) |
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2020 |
Kareem El-Badry (Graduate) (Astronomy) |
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2019 |
Wren Suess (Graduate) (Astronomy) Tom Zick (Graduate) (Astronomy) |
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2018 |
Carina Cheng (Graduate) (Astronomy) |
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2017 |
Daniel Goldstein (Graduate) (Astronomy) |
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2016 |
Katherine de Kleer (Graduate) (Astronomy) |
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2015 |
Francesca Fornasini (Graduate) (Astronomy) |
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2014 |
James Gold McBride (Graduate) (Astronomy) Garrett “Karto” Keating (Graduate) (Astronomy) |
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2013 |
Charles “Chat” Hull (Graduate) (Astronomy) Dick Plambeck Chat was an observational astronomer whose research focused on polarization from protostellar disks. He completed his Ph.D. in 2014. |
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2012 |
Michael McCourt (Graduate) (Astronomy) Michael McCourt, a 5th-year graduate student at Berkeley, worked with his advisor, Eliot Quataert, to understand the hot, tenuous gas filling clusters of galaxies. He led a number of studies on the physics of this gas, how it cools to form galaxies and fuel black hole growth, and how measurements of the gas can be used to infer the mass of the underlying dark matter halo. Michael is expected to graduate in spring 2014. Jonathan Pober (Graduate) (Astronomy) Donald Backer “Jonathan Pober lost his original research advisor, Don Backer, midway through his graduate student career, but surmounted adversity to become a leading expert in the science and techniques of 21cm cosmology” according to Aaron Parsons, Pober’s current advisor. He played a key role in presenting the PAPER (Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization) experiment to the NSF, helping secure funding for the project. He adapted techniques pioneered by the PAPER project to a new science application, seeking to measure the accelerating expansion of the universe, presumably as the result of mysterious Dark Energy. Pober expects to complete his Ph.D. in 2013. |
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2011 |
Statia Luszcz-Cook (Graduate) (Astronomy) The first student chosen to receive the prestigious Berkeley Trumpler Award, Statia Luszcz-Cook, was announced as a recipient for her work in what could essentially be called a “double-thesis”. Luszcz-Cook observed Neptune in the near-IR with the integral-field spectrograph OSIRIS on Keck (at these wavelengths, the planet is observed in reflected sunlight) and subsequently observed Neptune’s thermal emission with CARMA at mm wavelengths, in particular the CO and HCN lines. She not only conducted the observations at these very different wavelengths, but also developed radiative transfer programs to analyze both sets of data. |