UK Physicist Sumit Das discusses the unprecedented 70 percent acceptance rate of the department’s top-choice graduate students this spring — 16 of the 22 students accepted will enroll in the fall.
Professor Yan has been interested in the cosmos since childhood, and joins us this fall to continue his research on star formation. His research seeks to understand why some galaxies no longer produce stars. This podcast is part of a series highlighting the new faculty members who joined the College of Arts and Sciences in the fall 2012 semester, and was produced by Cheyenne Hohman.