Department of Astronomy

Committee Assignments 2024-25

Leadership

  • Chair: Barger
  • Associate Chair: Mathieu
  • Student Bench: TorresVillanueva
  • Undergraduate Representative: Chris Pate 

Staff Roles

  • Department Administrator: Anderson
  • Payroll: Anderson, Sauer
  • Grants: Anderson, Didier
  • Graduate Program Manager: Sauer
  • Undergraduate Advisor: Heintz
  • Computing, Network: Teche, Williams
  • Travel, meetings, colloquium visitor arrangements, purchasing, building management for Sterling and PBO, educational telescopes and planetarium: Williams
  • Website: Didier
  • Shop: Smith
  • Front office: shared responsibility

Academic Committees

  • Awards: Townsend
  • BoV Liaison and Development:  Mathieu
  • Climate: Lewis (Chair), McConnell, Waggoner, Todd, Didier, Himantog, undergrad TBD
  • Colloquium: Soares-Furtado (Chair)
  • Computing: Heinz (Chair), Becker, D’Onghia
  • Curriculum: Heinz (Chair), Heintz, Karcheski, Lazarian, Marston, Maseda, McClure, Stanimirovic, Zhang
  • Facilities: Barger
  • Finance: Barger, Heinz, Mathieu
  • Graduate Advising: Maseda (Chair), Sauer
  • Graduate Admissions: Becker (Chair), D’Onghia, Kim, Laseter, Stone, Zweibel
  • Learning Outcomes: Barger, Grier, Soares-Furtado
  • Prelims: Grier (Chair)
  • TACs: NOEMA – Stanimirovic, Zhang (Co-Chairs), Wenger; SALT – Orio (Chair), Grier, Soares-Furtado, Wolf (Spring); Beatty (Chair), Becker, Grier, Hooper
  • REU/RTE: Kotulla, Soares-Furtado
  • Science Lunch: Rybarczyk
  • Space Place & Washburn Observatory: Lattis
  • Undergraduate Advising: Stanimirovic, Zhang (Co-Chairs), Heintz
  • UitP: Kriewald
  • 51 Pegasi Postdoc Fellowship Contact: Beatty
  • Provisional WiCOR Advisory Council: Barger, Beatty
  • WiCOR Advisory Council (once WiCOR becomes official): Heinz, Stanimirovic
  • Zhang Tenure-Track: Zweibel (Chair), Stanimirovic, Widicus Weaver
  • Maseda Tenure-Track: D’Onghia (Chair), Lazarian, Stanimirovic
  • Beatty Tenure-Track: Widicus Weaver (Chair), Heinz, Lazarian
  • Grier Tenure-Track: Heinz (Chair), D’Onghia, Mathieu
  • Becker Tenure-Track: Mathieu (Chair), Townsend, Zweibel
  • Todd Tenure-Track: Widicus Weaver (Chair), Stanimirovic, Gellman, Bertram
  • Soares-Furtado Tenure-Track: D’Onghia (Chair), Townsend, Zweibel
  • Stone Tenure-Track: Townsend (Chair), Heinz, Lazarian

Observatories

  • SALT Board: Wilcots (Fall)
  • WIYN Board: Mathieu (President), Beatty
  • WIYN SSC: Beatty, Hooper
  • AURA Member Rep: Mathieu (Primary), Heinz (Alternate)

College and University

  • Applied Math’s Ten-Year Academic Programs Review: Lazarian
  • Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Ten-Year Academic Programs Review: Heinz
  • Campus Ad Hoc Review Committee on Academic Staff Research Professors: D’Onghia
  • EDIB Lead: Sauer
  • Faculty Senate: Beatty (Primary), Barger (Alternate)
  • Graduate Faculty Executive Committee: Heinz
  • Provisional Director of WiCOR: Widicus Weaver
  • Research Committee: Stanimirovic
  • Search Committee for Dean of Engineering: Zweibel
  • University Committee: Zweibel