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This will be the final entry under the 2003 banner. Commencing next week regular updates will occur and be called 2004 rumors unless otherwise labeled.

As of December 2003 Pat Hall has officially retired his rumor page. Let us all thank Pat for the critical role he played in bringing the excitement of rumor pages to your computer.


Dec 28, 2003

Faculty news from Warwick, Florida, Bonn, Caltech, UCL, Rochester Inst. Tech., Heidelberg, Lancaster, Edinburgh, Sussex, Cambridge, MPIA

2003 Faculty Positions

AAO (Directorship) Short list made, including Matthew Colless, Warrick Couch, Peter Quinn, Chris Tinney (08/01); Offer made to Matthew Colless, accepted (09/10)
ATNF (Directorship) Short list made, including John Dickey, Bryan Gaensler, Ray Norris, Elaine Sadler, Brian Boyle (01/31); Offer made to Brian Boyle, accepted (04/17)
Bonn (C3 Professorship) Long short list made, including W. Dehnen, R. Klessen, P. Kroupa, T. Richtler, R. Saglia, C. Theiss, B. Ziegler. (01/20); Short short list made, including Pavel Kroupa and Christian Theis (04/07); NEW! Offer made to Pavel Kroupa, accepted (12/01)
Bremen (Professorship) Short list made, including T. Ensslin, H. Falcke, M. Ruffert and S. Rosswog (03/04); Offer made to Heino Falcke, declined (09/10); Offer made to Stefan Rosswog, accepted (09/10)
Cal State Sacramento Short list made, including Pat Durrell, Mary Putman, Chris Taylor (11/20); Offer made to Chris Taylor (12/06), accepted (02/05)
Caltech Offers made to Re'em Sari and Sunil Golwala, both accepted (05/27)
NEW! Offer made to Nergis Mavalvala, declined (12/01)
Cambridge NEW! (Plumian Chair) Offer made to Simon White (12/19)
Carnegie/DTM Short list made, including Michael Liu, Keivan Stassun, Marc Kuchner, Kevin Luhman, Qing-zhu Yin (02/03)
(Staff Associate) Offer made to Daniel Kelson, accepted (12/29)
Chicago (Astro) Short list made, including Rosalba Perna, Paolo Padoan, Alexei Khokhlov, Jeremy Heyl, Reem Sari, Hui Li (01/16); Offer made to Re'em Sari, declined (05/27); Offer made to Alexey Khokhlov, accepted (06/07)
(Physics) Short list made, including John Beacom (04/04)
Colorado Short list made, including Rosalba Perna, Sunil Golwala, Andrew Benson, Julia Lee, Chuck Keeton (02/04); Offer made to Rosalba Perna, accepted (05/16)
Colorado College Short list made, including Kartik Sheth (02/03); Offer made to Kartik Sheth, declined (03/11)
Davis ("Faculty" Shuffle) Tony Tyson (Lucent) in negotiations with Davis (04/24); Tony Tyson and parts of his group have officially joined Davis (10/02)
Durham (Chair of Astronomy) Long short list made, including Richard Bower, Ian Smail, Karl Glazebrook, Jean Brodie, Steve Rawlings (05/10)
Short short list made, including Richard Bower, Ian Smail, Karl Glazebrook, Steve Rawlings (05/31); Offer made to Steve Rawlings (07/01), declined (09/16); Offer made to Karl Glazebrook (10/10) contrary to earlier rumor KG has not yet accepted this offer (11/05)
Edinburgh Short list made, including Phil Best, Annette Ferguson, Patrick Hall, Andrew Hopkins, Andrew Jaffe, Bob Mann, Gordon Ogilvie, Chris Simpson (11/05); NEW! Offer made to Phil Best (12/19)
ETSU Short list made, including Michelle Creech-Eakman, Richard Ignace, Martin Ossowski, Kalman Varga (03/06); Offer made to Richard Ignace, accepted (05/29)
Exeter Short list made (09/04); Offer made to Andrew Bunker (accepted 10/10)
Florida Short list made, including Stephane Courteau, Letizia Stanghellini, Mark Dickinson, Pavel Kroupa, Anthony Gonzalez, David Trilling, Pat Hall, Kevin Luhman (02/04); Offer made to Pavel Kroupa, accepted (04/27); NEW! Pavel Kroupa accepted the position at Bonn, and will not be taking the position he had already accepted at Florida. (12/01)
(Physics) Offer made to Guido Mueller, accepted (07/08)
Florida Atlantic Offers made to Alex Kim, Eric Linder (accepted 07/11), Daniel Holz (07/07)
Glasgow Short list made, including Steve Penn, Rosa Poggiani, David Robertson, Sheila Rowan (03/10); Offer made to Sheila Rowan, accepted (05/12)
Harvard (Faculty Shuffle) Offer made to Chris Stubbs (07/08), accepted (08/21); UW is making counteroffer (07/09)
Hawaii Offer made to Michael Liu, accepted (09/02)
Heidelberg (Directorship) Short list made, including Coryn Bailer-Jones, Ortwin Gerhard, Ralf Klessen, David Merritt, Peter Schneider, Joachim Wambsganss (08/11); NEW! Offer made to Joachim Wambsganss (12/25)
NEW! (C4 Professorship) Short list made, including R.-J. Dettmar, A. Eckart, J. Eisloeffel, N. Langer, S. Moehler, A. Quirrenbach, S. Schindler (12/16)
HIA (New Horizons Program) Ongoing search, some candidates invited to vist, including Pat Hall (03/28)
(Faculty Shuffle) Offers made to Pat Cote and Laura Ferrarese (both of Rutgers) (06/21)
IAS Offer made to David Spergel, declined (12/10) discussions were held in 2002, but an official offer/negotiation was not pursued (01/05)
Iowa State Short list made, including Richard Schnee (02/07); Search has been "concluded". (02/21)
Offer made to Martin Pohl, accepted (05/12)
Irvine Short list made, including Rupert Croft, Tiziana Di Matteo, Aaron Barth, Manoj Kaplinghat (01/29); Offer made to Aaron Barth, accepted (05/10); Offer made to Ken Sembach (05/10)
JPL Offer made to Amy Mainzer, accepted (09/24)
Kapteyn Offers made to Leon Koopmans, Marc Verheijen, and Saleem Zaroubi, all accepted (09/14)
Lancaster Short list made, including Thomas Buchert, Paul H. Frampton, Timothy J. Hollowood, Igor I. Tkachev; NEW! Offer made to Paul Frampton (12/19)
LSU Short list made, Brad Schaefer, Pat Hall (02/20); Offer made to Brad Schaefer, accepted (10/15)
Marquette Offer made to Chris Stockdale (04/17)
McGill Short list made, including Edward Brown, Jeremy Heyl, Hendrik Hoekstra, Scott Ransom, Bob Rutledge, Daniel Stern (01/09); Two offers made to Bob Rutledge (accepted 05/27) and Jeremy Heyl (declined 05/27)
McMaster (Sharcnet Chair) Short list made, including James Wadsley, Alan Calder, Jun Cho, Paolo Padoan (02/23); Offer made to James Wadsley (04/11)
Michigan Short list made, including Mary Putman, Marc Kuchner (02/02); Offers made to Mary Putman and Edwin Bergin, both accepted (04/01)
(Facuty Shuffle) Rosie Wyse being courted for senior position (Physics) (03/09)
Michigan sent out letters in March saying the were not hiring because of budget problems but one or two people were in fact offered positions and allowed to defer the start date to 2004 (06/01)
Michigan State (Faculty Shuffle) Megan Donahue (STScI->MSU), Mark Voit (STScI->MSU) (01/31)
Short list made, including Ed Brown, Todd Thompson (04/23); Offer made to Todd Thompson, declined (08/13)
Michigan Tech Short list made, including Michael Schubnell, Paolo Gondolo, Rico Ignace (02/05)
Minnesota Short list made, including Asantha Cooray, Marco Pelosom Will Kinney, John Beacom, Manoj Kaplinghat (02/23)
MIT (Astrophysics) Short list made, including Jeremy Heyl, Chuck Keeton, Rick Jenet, Julia Lee, Re'em Sari, Edward Baltz (01/03); Offer made to Sunil Golwala (05/06); Offer made to Re'em Sari (05/27); Offer made to Max Tegmark (06/02), accepted (08/11)
Montana State Offers made to Daniel Holz and Sharon Morsink, both declined (07/16)
MPA Offers made to Volker Springel and Joop Schaye (03/02)
MPIA (Burkert Succession) Short list made, including Volker Bromm, Uta Fritze-von Alvensleben, Neal Katz, Ralf Klessen, Frank van den Bosch (06/18); Offer made to Volker Bromm (07/10), declined (12/25)
(Grebel Succession) Short list made, including Eric Bell, Harald Ebeling, Annette Ferguson, Henk Hoekstra, Cristina Popescu, Fabian Walter; Offer made to Annette Ferguson, declined; NEW! Offer made to Fabian Walter, accepted (12/25)
(Tenure Track Staff Positions) NEW! Offers made to Eric Bell (accepted), Sharda Jogee (declined), Eva Schinnerer (accepted) (12/25)
Munich (Faculty Shuffle) Andi Burkert (MPA->Munich)
New Mexico State Short list made, including Thomas Harrison, Travis Barman, Mike Garcia, Pat Hall, Nancy Chanover, Chris Churchill, and Rick Edelson (03/14); Offer made to Chris Churchill (03/25), accepted (04/29)
New Mexico Tech Short list made, including P. Hofner, H. Schmitt, S. Bhattacharjee, M. Creech-Eakman, N. Podder, S. Larson, D. Jeffrey, L. King (04/25); Offers made to L. King, P. Hofner (05/22); Offer made to Shane Larson, declined (07/15)
NOAO (Data Products Program) Short list made, including Bob Nichol, Pat Hall (01/23); Offers made to Kem Cook, Mark Dickinson, Bob Nichol, Kathy Romer, and Letizia Stangellini (03/12), Cook+Dickinson+Stangellini all accepted (04/24)
North Carolina Short list made, including Paolo Gondolo, Manoj Kaplinghat (01/28); Offer made to Laura Mersini, accepted (06/11)
Notre Dame Short list made, including Chris Churchill (02/12); No hire will be made due to internal politics (03/14)
Nottingham Short list made, including Omar Almaini, Philip Best, Andrew Bunker (08/29); Offers made to Omar Alaini and Loretta Dunne, both accepted (09/30)
NYU Short list made, including Andrew Benson, Chuck Keeton (02/03); Offer made to Re'em Sari, declined (05/27)
Faculty search postponed until fall (07/08)
Ohio State (Eminent Scholar in Cosmology) Offer made to Chris Kochanek (12/10), accepted (07/03)
(Faculty) Short list made, including Kevin Luhman, Kurt Adelberger, Elizabeth Barton Gillespie, Henk Hoekstra, Kenneth Sembach (01/19); faculty search suspended because of budget concerns and other issues (07/28)
Oslo Short list made, including Jesper Sommer-Larsen, Oystein Elgaroy, Dmitri I. Novikov; Offer made to Jesper Sommer-Larsen (03/06)
Penn State Offer made to Asantha Cooray (01/24), declined (04/04); Offer made to Marc Kuchner (02/13)
Purdue Short list made, including Michael Schubnell, Maxim Lyutikov, Bing Zhang (01/14); Offer made to Matt Lister, accepted (05/13)
Queen's (CRC Chair) Short list made, including Matt Lister, Pat Hall, Doug Johnstone (01/06); CRC Chair given to another department instead (10/15)
(Faculty Shuffle) Stephane Courteau (UBC -> Queen's)
Riverside Short list made, including Gabriela Canalizo, Merav Opher (04/12); Offer made to Gabriela Canalizo, accepted (10/15)
Rochester Inst. Tech. Short list made, including Pat Durrell (02/14); NEW! Offer made to Mannasse Mbonye, accepted (12/09)
NEW! (Faculty Shuffle) David Axon (Herts -> RIT)
NEW! (Faculty Shuffle) Andrew Robinson (Herts -> RIT)
NEW! (Faculty Shuffle) David Merritt (Rutgers -> RIT)
Rutgers Short list made, including Manoj Kaplinghat, Rupert Croft, Paolo Padoan, Rosalba Perna, Chuck Keeton (02/10); Offer made to Chuck Keeton (09/10)
SAO (SMA Astronomer) Offer made to Alison Peck (08/22), accepted (09/18)
San Diego Short lists made, including Brain Keating, Masao Sako, Rebecca Bernstein, Amy Mainzer, Paolo Padoan, Alexander Heger, Andrew Benson (03/07); Offers made to Paolo Padoan and Brian Keating, both accepted (07/11)
San Francisco State Short list made, including Travis Rector, Mary Barsony, Keivan Stassun, Debra Fischer, Chris Churchill, Michiel Hogerheijde, Elizabeth Blanton (02/24); Offer made to Debra Fischer, accepted (03/28)
Santa Barbara Short list made, including Mariangela Bernardi, Sunil Golwala, Brian Keating, Michael Liu (01/27); Offer made to Michael Liu (05/29), declined (09/02)
Santa Cruz (High-energy/Particle) Short list made, including Anthony Aguirre, Jeremy Heyl, Janna Levin, Hong Liu, and four others (11/21); Offer made to David Smith (02/08), accepted (03/01)
Offer made to Anthony Aguirre (02/11), accepted (05/06)
Shawnee State Offer made to Tim Hamilton, accepted (06/16)
Stanford (Faculty Shuffles) Roger Blandford (Caltech -> SLAC) (01/15), Steve Kahn (Columbia -> SLAC) (01/15)
SUNY Buffalo (Astroparticle) Short list made, including Arthur Lue, Paolo Gondolo, Manoj Kaplinghat, Edward Baltz, Richard Easther, Will Kinney (12/20); Offer made to Will Kinney (04/04), accepted (04/18)
Sussex Short list made, including Steve Allen, Andrew Barber, Philip Best, Simon Clark, Bob Mann, Kathy Romer, Klaus-Peter Schroder (10/24); NEW! Offer made to Kathy Romer, accepted (12/19)
Texas, Austin Short list made, including Volker Bromm (01/30); Offer made to Eiichiro Komatsu, accepted (10/15)
Texas, Brownsville Offer made to David Merritt (09/13), declined (12/04)
Toronto Short list made, including Marc Kuchner (02/02)
Trent Short list made (02/20)
UBC Short list made, including Rupert Croft, Mike Gladders, Richard Easther, Stephane Courteau, Jeremy Heyl, Jeffery Martin, Chuck Keeton (12/30); Offer made to Jeremy Heyl (03/12), accepted (05/10)
UCL (Faculty Shuffle) Ofer Lahav (Cambridge -> UCL) (04/05); Lahav changed his mind (06/19); UCL have now offered the job to Rosie Wyse (06/19), declined (10/21); Offer made again to Ofer Lahav, this time accepted (10/21)
NEW! (Lecturer) Short list made, including Sarah Bridle, Dave Clements, Matt Jarvis, Lindsay King, Jochen Weller (12/01); Offers made to Sarah Bridle and Jochen Weller (12/21)
Utah Short list made, including Michael Schubnell (03/03); Offer made to Paolo Gondolo, accepted (05/16)
Vanderbilt (Senior Theorist) Short list made, including Gary Ferland, Garrett Mellema, Bing Zhang, Keivan Stassun (11/21); Offers made to Keivan Stassun and Gary Ferland (02/24)
Warwick Short list made, including Matt Burleigh, Christian Knigge, Danny Steeghs, Tariq Shahbaz, Sylvie Zane, J. Wilms (09/17); NEW! Offer made to Joern Wilms, accepted (11/27)
Washington State (Band Chair of Physics) Short list made, including George Lake (02/27); Offer made to George Lake, accepted (06/18)
(Junior Faculty) Offer made to Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (10/21)
Waterloo Short list made, including Idit Zehavi, Michael Balogh, Manoj Kaplinghaat, Pat Cote, Laura Ferrarese (02/23); Offer made to Michael Balogh, accepted (10/16)
Zurich (Univ) (Computational Science) Short list made, including George Lake, Neal Katz (01/16)
Zurich (ETH) Offer made to Frank van den Bosch, accepted (06/18)



2003 Postdoc/Fixed Term Positions

Amsterdam (w/Wijers) Offer made to Rhaana Starling, accepted (02/19)
ANU (w/Driver) Offer made to Michael Balogh, declined (03/04); Offer made to Paul Allen, accepted (10/01)
(w/Asplund) Offer made to Regner Trampedach, accepted (05/12)
(w/Sackett) Offer made to Ulyana Dyudina, accepted (05/12)
Arizona (w/Fan) Offer made to Marianne Vestergaard, accepted (02/19)
(w/Rieke) Shortlist made, including Glenn Morrison (10/30)
Amsterdam (w/Wijers) Offer made Rhaana Starling, accepted (02/19)
Berkeley (Miller Fellowship) Offers made to Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Alice Shapley (accepted 01/25), Eric Ford (accepted 01/27)
(Townes Fellowship) Short list made, including Dae-Sik Moon (02/05); Offres made to Dae-Sik Moon (declined 03/15), Crnelia Winderer (accepted 03/15), Nils Halverson (accepted 03/15)
(SIM) Offer made (02/06)
(TAC PDF) Offer made to Tzu-Ching Chang, accepted (03/03)
(w/Genzel) Offer made to Amanda Mainzer (03/06)
Caltech (Millikan Fellowship) Offer made to Dae-Sik Moon (01/05), accepted (02/07)
(w/Reach&Rho) Offer made to Crystal Brogan (01/24)
(OVRP) Offer made to Ray Furuya, accepted (02/28)
Cambridge (w/Fabian) Offer made to Jonathan Sievers (01/20); Offer made to Franz Bauer, accepted (06/11)
(Observational PDF) Offer made to Alice Shapley (01/22), declined (01/24); Offer made to Marianne Vestergaard, declined; Offer made to Vasily Belokurov (01/29), accepted (02/19)
(Theoretical PDF) withdrawn due to lack of PPARC funding (01/22)
(w/Parry) Offer made to Nicolas Bouche (02/14)
Carnegie (Carnegie Fellowships) Short list made (01/26); Offer made to Kurt Adelberger (02/07), accepted (02/15)
(DTM) Offer made to K. Ford, accepted (02/24)
Carnegie-Mellon Offer made to David Johnston (01/23), declined (02/14
Case Western Offer made to Pia Loaiza, accepted (10/31)
CfA Offer made to Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (01/13); Offer made to Dae-Sik Moon (02/03), declined (02/07)
(Menzel PDF) Offer made to Scott Gaudi (01/16), accepted (02/12)
(Clay Fellowship) Offer made to Paul Martini (01/22), accepted (02/07); (w/Goodman) Offer made to Naomi Ridge (02/14)
CFHT Short list made, including Glenn Morrison (12/16)
Chandra Fellowships Offers made, including Mateusz Ruszkowski, Taotao Fang (accepted 03/03), Sebastian Heinz, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Mike Muno (declined 02/13), Peter Jonkers (accepted 08/11)
Chicago (Fermi/McCormick Fellowship) Offer made to Risa Wechsler (12/18), accepted (01/13)
(CfCP) Offers made to Chris Gordon, Andrew Zentner both accepted (01/17)
CITA (PDF) Offers made to Ilian Iliev, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Subhabrata Majumdar (accepted 02/05), Wynn Ho (declined 02/15)
(Senior RA) Offer made to Scott Gaudi (02/07), declined (02/12) (01/15)
(w/Bond) Offer made to Jon Sievers, accepted (09/24)
Colorado (w/Shull & Gnedin) Offer made to Darren Reed (01/16), declined (02/14); Offer made to Fernando Santoro (02/14), accepted (02/26)
(w/Shull) Offer made to Charles Danforth, accepted (02/12) (w/Gnedin & Hamilton) Offer made to Chris Rimes, accepted (01/24)
(w/Begelman) Offer made to Dafne Guetta, accepted (02/07)
(w/Arav) Offer made to Jack Gabel, accepted (02/24)
Davis (w/Lubin) Offer made to , accepted (02/24)
Offer made to Joseph Hennawi (11/17)
Edinburgh (w/Peacock) Offer made to Jamie Portsmouth (02/07)
Offer made to Patricia Castro, accepted (03/13)
ESA Fellowship Offer made, including Thomas Puzia (01/28)
ESO Fellowships Offers made, including Carlos De Breuck (02/05)
Fermilab Offer made to Gianfranco Bertone, accepted (02/07)
Hawaii (w/Szapudi) Offer made to Pablo Fosalba (02/07), accepted (03/10)
(w/West) Offer made to Marianne Takamiya (02/20), accepted (02/26)
Hubble Fellowships 12 offers made (01/21), including Kurt Adelberger (declined 02/15), Anthony Aguirre (declined 02/11), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (declined 02/11), Dae-Sik Moon (declined 02/07), Tommaso Treu (accepted 03/04), Qingjuan Yu (accepted 02/11), Avishay Gal-Yam (accepted 02/12), Alice Shapley (declined 02/07), Marc Kuchner (accepted 03/04), Marla Geha (accepted 02/15), Mike Muno (accepted 02/13), Risa Wechsler (accepted 02/15), Darren Madgwick (accepted 02/18), Paul Martini (declined 02/07), Wynn Ho (accepted 02/15)
IAS (3-year) Offers made, including Avishay Gal-Yam (declined 02/12), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (accepted (02/11)
Illinois (w/Brunner) Two offers made (02/06)
(w/Gammie) Offer made to Scott Noble, accepted (02/27)
Jansky Fellowships Two offers made (01/30), including Shami Chatterjee (02/03)
JCMT Offer made to Crystal Brogan (01/24)
Johns Hopkins Offer made to David Johnston (01/23), declined (02/14)
LANL (Feynman Fellowship) Offer made to Daniel Holz, accepted (02/03)
(w/T-6) Offer made to Falk Herwig (02/03)
Offer made to Kev Abazajian, accepted (02/07)
(w/Habib) Offer made to Yongzhong Xu (02/20), accepted (03/01)
Livermore (Lawrence Fellowship) Offer made to Joseph Barranco, declined (02/18)
Massachusetts (FCRAO PDF) Offers made to Sungeun Kim and Chris Brunt, both accepted (02/25)
McGill (Tomlinson PDF) Offer made to Shami Chatterjee (02/14)
Michigan Short list made, including Edward Baltz, Dejan Stojkovic (01/06); Offer made to Edward Baltz (declined 01/22); Offer made to Dejan Stojkovic (accepted (01/23)
(w/Jayawardhana) Offer made to Diane Paulson (01/31), accepted (02/02)
MIT (Pappalardo Fellowships) Offers made to Ben Lane, Rob Simcoe (12/12)
(w/Lewin) Offer made to Jennifer Sokoloski (declined 01/29); Offers made to David Pooley and Jeroen Homan, both accepted (06/26)
MPA Offer made to Nicolas Bouche (01/24), accepted (02/25)
NORDITA Short list made, including Maxim Lyutikov (01/24); Offer made to Anne Green (03/21), declined (03/24); Offer made to Suzanne Hoefner (03/24), accepted (03/24)
Northwestern Offers made to Bart Willems (accepted 01/16), Patrick Sutton (declined 02/17), Pinaki Chatterjee (01/16), Archana Pai (declined 02/17), Richard O'Shaughnessy (accepted 04/02)
NRAO Offer made to Chris Groppi, accepted (04/15)
NSF Fellows Offers made, including Anne Metevier (accepted 03/05), Jennifer Sokoloski (accepted 02/25), Jennifer Hoffman (accepted 02/14), Rose Finn (accepted 02/13), John Feldmeier (accepted 02/11), Jessica Rosenberg (accepted 02/18), Katherine Rhode (accepted 02/14), Joseph Barranco (accepted 02/18)
(NSF MPS Fellowships) Offer made to Michael Santos, accepted (03/28)
NYU (James Arthur Fellowship) Offer made to Beth Willman, accepted (02/13)
Offer made to Andreas Berlind (accepted 02/20)
Oxford Offer made to Daniel Hooper, accepted (01/27)
Offer made to Jamie Portsmouth (02/03), accepted (02/15)
Offer made to Sadegh Khochfar, accepted (02/10)
Penn (w/Bernstein) Offer made to David Johnston (01/23), declined (02/14)
(w/Tegmark) Offer made to Jose Diego, accepted (02/06)
Princeton (Russell Fellowship) Offer made to Alice Shapley (01/22), Offer made to Marc Kuchner, accepted (04/14)
(w/SDSS) Offer made to David Johnston (02/03), accepted (02/10)
(Catolica) Short list made, including Nicolas Bouche (02/14); Offer made to Marianne Vestergaard,declined (02/19)
Purdue Short list made, including Dejan Stojkovic (01/10)
Rutgers (w/Merritt) Offer made to Andras Szell, accepted (06/25)
SAO (SMA Fellowships) Offers made to Ram Rao (accepted 02/26), Chin-Fei Lee (accepted 02/26), Jackie Kessler (declined 02/26)
Saint Mary's Offer made to Amanda Karakas (04/10)
Santa Barbara Offer made to Edward Baltz (01/06), declined (02/04); Offer made to Wynn Ho, declined (02/15)
SIRTF Fellowships Offers made, including Sarah Gallagher (accepted 02/07), Alice Shapley (declned 02/20), Jacqueline Kessler (accepted 02/20), Henrik Spoon (accepted 02/20), Michael Cushing (accepted 02/20)
Stanford (SLAC) Offer made to Edward Baltz, accepted (02/04); Offer made to Wynn Ho, accepted (02/15)
STScI (Institute Fellow) Offer made to Alice Shapley (01/22),declined (01/26); Offer made to A. Gal-Yam (declined 01/26); Offer made to Scott Gaudi (declined 02/12)
(w/Casertano) Offer made to Yogesh Wadadekar, accepted (01/23) (w/Fruchter) Offer made to Stephen Holland, declined (03/14); Offer made to David Bersier, accepted (05/20)
(w/Meixner) Offer made to Ben Sugerman (03/24)
Swift Science Center Short list made, including David Bersier, Stephen Holland (02/12); Offer made to Stephen Holland, accepted (03/24)
Swinburne Offers made to Richard Ogley (accepted 01/23), Shinji Horiuchi (01/23)
Texas (MacDonald Fellowship) Offer made to Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (01/23)
(Harlan J. Smith Fellowship) Offer made to Seth Redfield, accepted (02/21)
Toronto (CFHLS) Offer made to Andrew Howell (01/13)
UKAFF Fellowships Offer made to Simon Goodwin, accepted (02/09)
Washington State Offers made to Nathan Hearn and Pasquale Tricarico, both accepted (10/21)
Wesleyan (w/Johnson) Offer made to Beth Willman (01/16), declined (02/27); Offer made to Andrea Font, accepted (05/18)
Yale (Yale Prize Fellowship) Short list made (02/06); Offer made to Marianne Vestergaard, declined (02/05); Offer made to Ken Rines, accepted (02/11)
(w/Urry) Offer made to U. Uchiyama (03/04)



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General gossip

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