Astronomy and Astrophysics at CUNY

The Astronomy and Astrophysics programs at CUNY are involved in a wide array of research topics, integrating many devoted faculty members with undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral researchers. Research in all areas is carried out both at each member's home institution as well as in conjunction with a research facility program at the American Museum of Natural History's Astrophysics Department.

CUNY Physics PhD Program

AMNH/CUNY NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)

Research Areas: Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Active Galactic Nuclei, Black Holes, Star Formation, Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs, Interstellar Medium, Giant Planets

Astrophysics at CUNY Colleges: City Tech (Brooklyn), Hunter (Manhattan), York (Queens), Staten Island, Lehman (Bronx), BMCC (Manhattan), and Medgar Evers (Brooklyn).

Affiliated Institutions: American Museum of Natural History, New York University, Columbia University, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Sciences (GISS)

News

August 2012

CUNY-AMNH Publication!

In research published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the American Museum of Natural History, the City University of New York, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics propose that intermediate-mass black holes can grow in the gas disks around supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. See it here in Sky and Telescope!

July 2012

Vivienne Baldassare awarded National Science Foundation Research Fellowship!

Three graduating seniors and one alumna from Hunter College have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships for work toward their master's or doctoral degrees, among them, Vivienne Baldassare will receive up to $121,500 for three years of advanced study in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.

Courses

Astrophysics I (PHYS 75700)

Grad Center, Fall 2012
Instructor: Timothy Paglione

Astrophysics II (PHYS 85700)

Grad Center, Spring 2013
Instructor: Charles Liu

Additional Courses:

Galactic Physics I (PHYS 75800), Galactic Physics II (PHYS 75900), Cosmology (PHYS 76000), Stellar Physics (PHYS 84700), Stellar Evolution (PHYS 84800)

Roles

Chair: Timothy Paglione

Grad Chairs: Kelle Cruz (Research), Ariyeh Maller (Curriculum)

Undergrad Chairs: Emily Rice (Research), Saavik Ford (Curriculum)

Grad Admissions: Matt O'Dowd

Astro 101 Coordinator: Matt O'Dowd

AMNH-CUNY Liason: Kelle Cruz

Contact Us

Physics PhD Program: physics@gc.cuny.org
Astro: info@cunyastro.org