Northwestern astrophysicist Wen-fai Fong will receive the 2024 Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy. She is recognized for her leadership of foundational work that is greatly advancing our understanding of explosive astrophysical transients and...
While searching for the origins of a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB), an international team of astrophysicists may have stumbled upon a new way to destroy a star. Although most GRBs originate from exploding massive stars or neutron-star mergers, the researchers concluded...
Astrophysicist Wen-fai Fong, was recognized by Astronomy Magazine in their list, “Rising Stars in Astronomy.” Fong is assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern. Fong is one of 25 early-career researchers recognized by Astronomy Magazine for having distinguished themselves from...
Northwestern researchers Vicky Kalogera, Wen-Fai Fong, and Charlie Kilpatrick were recently chosen as finalists to be part of a NASA-led team that will launch a research facility into space in 2028. The winning team will pilot a groundbreaking new mission named STAR-X and will receive $300 million...
Last week, a team of Northwestern researchers assisted in recording the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded. The discovery was part of an international effort to document an explosion nearly 2.4 billion light years away from Earth. The team of astrophysicists believes...
Northwestern and Radboud University in the Netherlands have recorded millimeter-wavelength light from an explosion caused by the merger of a neutron star with another star. To record the data, astrophysicists used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international observatory operated...
Three Weinberg College faculty members have been awarded a prestigious 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The recipients were economist Piotr Dworczak, astrophysicist Wen-fai Fong, and mathematician Yuchen Liu. They were selected for their creativity, innovation...
Northwestern University astrophysicist Wen-fai Fong has received a 2022 Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), the United States’ first foundation wholly dedicated to science. Fong is among a diverse group of 24 early career scholars in chemistry, physics and astronomy...
Assistant Professor Wen-fai Fong, of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has received the prestigious 2021 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The foundation named Fong and 19 others as the nation’s most innovative, early-career...
Professor Wen-fai Fong of the Department of Physics and Astronomy has been awarded an Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious...
