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2007 Mar 01 Public Lecture by Volker Beckmann entitled "The Violent Universe" on Thursday, March 1st, 7:30-8:30pm in Lecture Hall 6 of the Physics Department. [more info...].

2006 Dec 31 Sadly Eric Perlman has left the JCA, having taken up an Associate Professor position within the Dept. of Physics and Space Science at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne (Fa). Best Wishes for the future Eric!

2006 Nov 11 Volker Beckmann's work on the X-ray Nova IGR J17497-2821 using Swift and INTERGAL observations is featured in an ESA and UMBC press releases. [more info...].

2006 Sep 26 UMBC is part of the consortium selected for the NASA/GSFC Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology (CRESST). Press Releases from UMBC, UMCP, & USRA. (more info coming soon...!)

2006 Jul 26 Volker Beckmann's work on the deficit of local, Compton-thick AGN using INTERGAL observations is featured in NASA, ESA and UMBC press releases. [more info...].

2006 Jun 26 Several JCA members have been awarded AO-4 observing time on ESA's INTEGRAL satellite [details...]

2006 Jun 13 The work of JCA Adjunct Assistant Research Scientist Alexis Finoguenov and UMBC's Prof Mark Henriksen is featured in an ESA Press Release entitled XMM-Newton spots the greatest of great balls of fire (and also a UMBC Press Release) This work was picked up by several news organizations and reported in a full-page feature in Discovery Magazine (2006 Sept issue).

2006 May 01 Włodzimierz Kluźniak (of CAMK) is visiting the JCA for the summer to work with Drs Swank & Zhang at NASA/GSFC. Welcome Wlodek!

2006 Apr 06 Former UMBC/JCA Graduate Student Danny Hudson (now Univ. Bonn, Germany) has a Press Release entitled "Proto supermassive binary black hole detected in X-rays" which has been picked up by several major news outlets.

2006 Mar 15 Several JCA members have been awarded AO-1 observing time on the Japan/US Suzaku satellite [details...]

2006 Feb 24 Congratulations to Alex Padgett for a successful defence of his PhD Proposal!

2006 Feb 03 JCA member Eric Perlman is quoted in the News of the Week section of Science as part of a commentary "Ring Around a Quasar May Deflate Quantum Foam After All".

2006 Jan 23 Deborah Cherry joins the JCA (part-time) to help with the administration.

2006 Jan 10 Several JCA members have been awarded observing time on ESA's XMM-Newton satellite [details...]

2006 Jan 06 JCA members were PI or co-Is on 9% of all proposals submitted in response to Suzaku AO-1 ! [details...]

2005 Dec 12 JCA member Eric Perlman is a coauthor on observations of the AGN NGC 1068 performed using Gemini North, and which is a subject of a Press Release by the Gemini Observatory

2005 Nov 28 Another JCA Member becomes a Civil Servant! Padi Boyd has accepted a Civil Service position at GSFC. Padi will remain the manager of both the RXTE and Swift GOFs.

2005 Oct Prof. Kirpal Nandra of Imperial College, London visits the JCA for 4 weeeks, working with Drs. George & Turner.

2005 Oct 06 JCA Associate Research Scientist John Cannizzo is a co-author on a paper entitled "A short γ-ray burst apparently associated with an elliptical galaxy at redshift z=0.225" published in (& on the cover of) Nature. [More...]

2005 Aug 31 The work of JCA Visiting Assistant Research Scientist Alexis Finoguenov is featured in an ESA Press Release entitled XMM-Newton probes formation of galaxy clusters.<   /td>

2005 Aug 21 Sadly Julie McEnery has left the JCA. Happily she is not going far. having joined the Civil Service at GSFC as the Deputy Project Scientist for GLAST.

2005 Aug 05 Four UMBC Students take part in the Summer Intership program with the JCA (& GSFC). [More Info on UMBC/Physics Undergraduate Research Day].

2005 July 13 JCA Research Associate Volker Beckman's discovery of a "shy star" using INTEGRAL, RXTE and Swift observations is featured in press releases by ESA and UMBC. [Links].

2005 July 09 Successful launch of Suzaku (formerly Astro-E2). See the Suzaku GOF page for the latest information, and links.

2005 July 01 JCA Research Associate Scientist Igor Moskalenko has left UMBC to take up a position at Stanford University - best wishes Igor!

2005 July 01 Mark Henriksen has stepped down as Director of the JCA having masterminded the growth of the JCA over the last 6 years. Ian George has been appointed the new Director.

2005 March 24 Dirk Petry's work on cosmic ray interactions in the Earth's atmosphere is the NASA's "Looking at Earth" Feature.