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as an admissions cutoff criterion for astronomy postgraduate programs by showing there was no statistical correlation between applicant's score and later success in their academic careers. Subsequently, the American Astronomical Society adopted the stance that the Physics GRE should not be mandatory
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Levesque and Jamie Lomax also sparked a jumping spider Twitter arachnoastronomy phenomenon with the help of Nathan Morehouse who studies spider eyesight at the University of Cincinnati.
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as an Einstein Fellow from 2010 to 2013, and then received a Hubble Fellowship from 2013 to 2015. She has been an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy at the
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for graduate school applications, and many graduate astronomy programs have since removed the Physics GRE as a required part of their graduate school applications.
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Levesque, Emily M.; Bezanson, Rachel; Tremblay, Grant R. (December 10, 2015). "Physics GRE Scores of Prize Postdoctoral Fellows in Astronomy".
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Levesque, Emily M.; Massey, Philip; Olsen, K. A. G.; Plez, Bertrand; Josselin, Eric; Maeder, Andre; Georges Meynet (2005).
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Levesque uses both observations and modeling in her work. In the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum, she uses the
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in Chile to study red supergiants in the Milky Way and in the Magellanic Clouds. She has discovered many new
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Zetterlund, Erika; Levesque, Emily M.; Leitherer, Claus; Danforth, Charles W. (January 1, 2015).
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Levesque, Emily M.; Massey, Philip; Żytkow, Anna N.; Morrell, Nidia (September 1, 2014).
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The last stargazers : the enduring story of astronomy's vanishing explorers
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Emily Levesque's public talk in the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series
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The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
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in April 2022. From March to June of 2023, Levesque worked at the
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published an influential paper, which critiqued the use of the
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
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From 2010 to 2015, Levesque was a postdoctoral researcher at
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Exploring the Environments of Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
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Recipients of the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy
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of star-forming galaxies. In the optical, she uses the
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Recipients of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy
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Taunton, Massachusetts
MIT
University of Hawaii
Astrophysics
Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy
Sloan Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
Fulbright Fellowship
Thesis
Exploring the Environments of Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts
Doctoral advisor
Lisa Kewley
www.emlevesque.com
University of Washington
galaxy formation
popular science
Taunton, Massachusetts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Hawaii
University of Colorado
University of Washington
Rachel Bezanson
Grant R. Tremblay
Physics GRE

Betelgeuse
Mu Cephei
KY Cygni
V354 Cephei
Hubble Space Telescope

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