Press, News & Media Archive

Press releases, news articles, and media appearances concerning the McGill Pulsar Group or its members are archived here.

	Dec 2011 Radio Canada recently produced a French-language documentary on Marie Curie in which Dr. Vicky Kaspi speaks about how Marie Curie influenced her decision to go into science. You can listen to the documentary here.
	Nov. 3, 2011 The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovers the "Justin Bieber of Millisecond Pulsars". Read the full story with quotes from Dr. Vicky Kaspi at University Today.
	Sept. 22, 2011 Dr. Stephen Ng discovers the longest pulsar tail associated with the Frying Pan supernova remnant. Read more at New Scientist.
	August 2011 McGill undergraduate Alina Chen He wins the top prize for posters in the Faculty of Science competition for work done with Dr. Vicky Kaspi and Dr. Stephen Ng.
	June 2011 Dr. Vicky Kaspi discusses pulsar astronomy in an interview with CBC Radionoon Montreal. Listen to the interview here.
	March 2010 Watch the YouTube video created by NSERC featuring Dr. Vicky Kaspi.
	March 2010 Watch the YouTube video created by McGill University featuring Dr. Vicky Kaspi and Dr. René Breton
	2010 Dr. Vicky Kaspi wins the 2010 John-C.-Polanyi prize of the NSERC.
	2010 Dr. Vicky Kaspi elected to the Royal Society, the science academy of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.
	2010 Dr. Vicky Kaspi elected to the National Academy of Science of the United States.
	2010 Dr. Vicky Kaspi receives Killam Research Fellowship from the Canada Council for the Arts.
	2009 Dr. Vicky Kaspi receives Prix Marie-Victorin, the highest distinction awarded by the government of Quebec in the Natural Sciences and Engineering.
	2009 Graduate student Anne Archibald wins award for Best Scientific Oral Presentation at the 2009 CASCA meeting.
	February 3, 2010 Read the 2009 Canadian Space Agency High-Energy Astrophysics Discipline Working Group Report here.
	June 5, 2009 The Ottawa Citizen features an article on Dr. Victoria Kaspi's lecture on the violent high-energy universe to an audience of Canadian MPs.
	May 21, 2009 The discovery by McGill Pulsar Group member Anne Archibald of a neutron star caught in the act of being "recycled" is reported by the BBC, AFP, Canada.com, ABC Science, and others.
	December 6, 2008 Hear Dr. Victoria Kaspi explain one of ten possible way the world could end on the CBC Radio program Quarks & Quirks.
	2007 Dr. Vicky Kaspi wins the 2007 Prix Urgel-Archambault of ACFAS.
	August 20, 2007 The summer 2007 issue of McGill Alumni News Magazine features a cover story about Victoria Kaspi.
	July 23, 2007 An editorial piece about Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who will be giving a public lecture at McGill University on August 14, appears in the Montreal Gazette.
	April 18, 2007 The French journal Le Journal Innovation reports on the discovery of the fastest pulsar.
	February 6, 2007 The Montreal Gazette interviewed and wrote a feature article about Victoria Kaspi juggling family and career.
	December 14, 2006 Victoria Kaspi has won the Steacie Prize in the Natural Sciences for 2006.
	November 15, 2006 Read more about Lorne Trottier who has donated $12 million to fund research in astrophysics, cosmology and aerospace engineering at McGill University.
	November 15, 2006 Victoria Kaspi is awarded the first Lorne Trottier Chair in Astrophysics and Cosmology.
	September 30, 2006 First announcement of the conference "40 Years of Pulsars: Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and More", to be hosted by McGill University in Montreal, August 12-17, 2007.
	April 4, 2006 New Scientist Magazine published an "Exclusive Feature" on magnetars, containing quotes from Victoria Kaspi. Access the pdf here.
	March 31, 2006 Science's "Perspectives" features the discovery of the 716 Hz pulsar in Terzan 5 by Jason Hessels and refers to the recently published article Hessels et al. 2006, Science, 311, 1901.
	January 26, 2006 The Canadian Jewish News features an interview with Vicky Kaspi in the article titled "Research team discovers fastest spinning neutron star".
	January 19, 2006 Discovery Channel News Brief reports on the "Speediest Pulsar Spotted". No mention of a TV special yet.
	January 18, 2006 The Associated Press reported on GBT-related press releases at the AAS, and the story was picked up by the Globe and Mail, among several other sources including the Hindustan Times and many, many newspapers in the U.S.
	January 16, 2006 McGill Newswire reports on the recognition of Prof. Vicky Kaspi's research as one of Quebec Science's "Top 10 Discoveries of 2005".
	January 14, 2006 Vicky Kaspi is interviewed on CBC's Quirks & Quarks about the fastest pulsar.
	January 14, 2006 A lengthy article was featured in the print version of Montreal newspaper Le Devoir. Unfortunately, it can only be read online for a fee.
	January 13, 2006 Article online and in the print version of Montreal newspaper La Presse, with quotes from Jason Hessels.
	January 13, 2006 Physics Web, the online edition of a UK physics journal, publishes the article "Pulsar breaks speed record".
	January 13, 2006 Front page article titled "Scientists in a whirl over star that spins" in the Montreal Gazette.
	January 13, 2006 Press release by the NRAO on the fastest-spinning pulsar discovery, featuring Jason Hessels and Scott Ransom.
	January 12, 2006 Read an online article from the NewScientist.com news service, and a separate column in issue 2535, page 17, of the New Scientist print edition, released January 21, 2006.
	January 12, 2006 "Astronomers discover fastest-spinning pulsar" on Physorg.com.
	January 12, 2006 Article about "McGill-led team discovers fastest-spinning pulsar" on the McGill Newswire.
	January 12, 2006 Press release in the online journal ScienceNOW on the discovery of the fastest pulsar, featuring Jason Hessels and Scott Ransom.
	January 12, 2006 Sky and Telescope reports "Spinning Pulsar Smashes Record", in reference to the discovery of the new fastest spinning pulsar, by Jason Hessels and Scott Ransom.
	January 8, 2006 Listen to an interview with Dr. Victoria Kaspi on the CBC Radio-Canada french science program Les Années Lumière.
	November 1, 2005 McGill University launches Headway, its new research magazine, featuring an in-depth article and cover photo our own Vicky Kaspi.
	February 11, 2005 Science's "Perspectives" reports on "A Pulsar Bonanza" in Terzan 5 discovered by Scott Ransom and collegues, in reference to the recent publication Ransom et al. 2005, Science, 307, 892.
	January 13, 2005 Scott Ransom is featured in a New Scientist SPACE column on his discovery of "Exotic stars unveiled at heart of Milky Way".
	January 12, 2005 McGill Newswire article on the Terzan 5 discovery of a "Star cluster buzzing with pulsars".
	January 12, 2005 NRAO press release quoting Scott Ransom and Jason Hessels on the discovery of 21 new pulsars in the globular cluster Terzan 5.
	October 1, 2004 The journal article Kaspi et al. 2004, ApJ, 613, L137 on the double pulsar system J0737-3039 is highlighted in Science's "Editor's Choice".
	April 23, 2004 "Crushed by Magnetism": a Science News piece on magnetars, mentioning work by Victoria Kaspi and Maxim Lyutikov.
	January 6, 2004 NASA "Top Story" about newly discovered transient magnetar XTE J1810-197. Images by Mallory Roberts taken with ROSAT and XMM-Newton are featured. See also GWU News Center, which mentions Scott Ransom and Victoria Kaspi.
	January 6, 2004 NSSTC news release on magnetars, titled "More Common than Previously Thought", featuring quotes by Victoria Kaspi and Fotis Gavriil. Also released on SpaceRef.com.
	December 27, 2003 Vicky Kaspi appears on another episode of CBC Radio One's science program Quirks & Quarks to answer the question "What is the temperature of outer Space?".
	December 28, 2002 The Quirks & Quarks Question Show, CBC Radio One's science program, asks Vicky Kaspi "Why is snow white?".
	September 16, 2002 Press release in PhysicsWeb News on the discovery of a magnetars-AXP connection by Fotis Gavrill and colleagues.
	September 14, 2002 Hear an interview with Dr. Vicky Kaspi on the CBC Radio One science program Quirks & Quarks, where she describes the recent discovery about anomalous X-ray pulsars, published in Nature.
	September 12, 2002 Nature's "News and Views" features the recent discovery of magnetar-like AXP bursts by Fotis Gavriil and references the recent article Gavriil et al. 2002, Nature, 419, 142.
	September 11, 2002 The discovery of magnetar-like bursts from an anomalous X-ray pulsar is featured in McGill Newswire.
	September 11, 2002 Goddard "Top Story": "Rare class of exotic stars revealed as super-magnets" featuring Victoria Kaspi and Fotis Gavriil.
	January 11, 2001 McGill Newswire report titled "Chandra associates pulsar and historic supernova".
	January 10, 2001 Chandra Press Release by Victoria Kaspi and Mallory Roberts on new evidence of an association between the pulsar in SNR G11.2-0.3 and the historic supernova of 386 AD.
	March 23, 2000 Victoria Kaspi is featured in a McGill Newswire report about "A new spin on a strange class of pulsars".
	March 22, 2000 MIT News Office report on research by Victoria Kaspi, to be presented at NASA's Rossi 2000 meeting.