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The dark side of lava planets
Lisa Dang and collaborators areÌýshedding light on the darkest side of lava planets.
Cam Morgan wins CASCA 2025 GSC award for best talk
WCA Graduate student, Cam Morgan, won the Graduate Student Committee (GSC) award for best talk at the 2025 Canadian Astronomical Society meeting, held in Halifax.
Cam presented his thesis work in his presentation, "Decoding quenching in the Virgo cluster with spatially resolved star formation".
Astrophysicists assemble for CASCA2025
Faculty, postdocs and grad students of the WCA travelled to Halifax this month, to take part in the 2025 meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society.