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X-WR-CALNAME:2026 Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy
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SUMMARY:2026 Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy
CONTACT:Benne Holwerda\, 502 852 0918\, email:benne.holwerda@louisville.edu
DESCRIPTION:Summary:\n\nFor the last 8 billion years, the universe has been
  making fewer and fewer new stars. Galaxies that were once vibrant nurseri
 es of star formation are increasingly becoming “red and dead.” But wha
 t causes a galaxy to stop making stars? This talk will explore the process
 es that fuel star formation—and those that bring it to a halt. Perhaps s
 urprisingly, some of the most detailed clues to how and why galaxies evolv
 e can be revealed in the light of quasars: extraordinarily bright distant 
 objects powered by supermassive black holes. By surveying hundreds of thou
 sands of galaxies and quasars, we can begin piecing together how gas flows
  have shaped the evolution of galaxies across billions of years of cosmic 
 history.\n\nBio: \n\nBritt Lundgren is the Philip G. Carson Distinguished
  Professor in the Sciences and a Professor and Chair of Physics and Astron
 omy at the University of North Carolina Asheville. She holds a B.A. in Phy
 sics from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the Univ
 ersity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her primary research involves pairing
  large ground- and space-based surveys of distant galaxies and quasars to 
 study galaxy evolution, the intergalactic medium, and large-scale structur
 e. \n\nAfter completing postdoctoral research at Yale University and an N
 SF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of
  Wisconsin-Madison, she spent one year as an AAAS Science and Technology P
 olicy Fellow in the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduat
 e Education, where she helped to facilitate the interagency working group 
 on STEM Engagement established by the National Science and Technology Coun
 cil’s Committee on STEM Education. Since joining the faculty at UNC Ashe
 ville, the UNC system’s dedicated liberal arts college, Lundgren has hel
 d multiple leadership roles in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), includ
 ing co-chairing the education and public outreach efforts for the SDSS-IV 
 Collaboration.  Her work infusing SDSS data into computational undergradu
 ate astronomy curricula led to her receipt of a Cottrell Scholar Award fro
 m the Research Corporation for Science Advancement in 2020. \n\nMore rece
 ntly, Lundgren has broadened her scholarship, publishing on topics at the 
 intersections of science, art, education, and policy. She is an Affiliated
  Fellow of Duke University's Space Diplomacy Lab, and she recently served 
 a four-year term as an NSF appointee to the Astronomy and Astrophysics Adv
 isory Committee, which advises the NSF, NASA, the Department of Energy, an
 d Congress on the federal astronomy and astrophysics portfolio.
GEO:38.2181;-85.7595
LOCATION:Strickler Hall
URL:https://events.louisville.edu/events/2026-bullitt-lecture-astronomy/202
 6-10-08
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