Stories about "Aleksandar Diamond-Stanic"
Those odd circles in space? They’re now explained thanks to scientists including Aleks Diamond-Stanic

Friday, January 12, 2024 2:00 am

A team of scientists, including Bates physics professor Aleksandar Diamond-Stanic, have explained a space phenomenon first discovered in 2019 but a mystery until this week.

Video: Bates professors share what hasn’t changed during remote learning

Friday, April 10, 2020 12:14 pm

Faculty are still grading, still holding office hours, still exploring their fields in class — and amazed how Bates students have “stepped up to the plate.”

For the first time, astronomers watch a galaxy eject gas into space

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 11:27 am

A Bates professor is one of a group of scientists who have found a possible explanation for how gases like oxygen get into the empty space around galaxies: galactic wind.

Physics students Kingdell S. Valdez ‘19 of Andover, Mass. (gray sweater) and Cristopher Thompson '19 of Macon, Ga., (Bates track sweatshirt) pose for photographs and discuss a physics problem at the blackboard in third-floor Carnegie Science physics lab on March 7, 2019.They are working on a collaborative physics senior project, doing different aspects w/similar data, turning in separate documents.
Two physics majors talk about galaxies, gas, dust, and moments “when you’re like, ‘awesome!'”

Thursday, March 14, 2019 1:24 pm

Here's how doing research with a professor in a Bates lab is like "standing on the shoulders of giants."

40,000 feet in the air, a Bates team observes a distant galaxy

Friday, September 28, 2018 9:08 am

Physics professor Aleksandar Diamond-Stanic secured seats for his research students aboard SOFIA, the world's largest airborne observatory.

Look What We Found: Aleks Diamond-Stanic’s plate with 1,400 holes

Thursday, June 8, 2017 1:55 pm

While it looks like a pizza screen, the plate was used by astronomers to collect spectra from objects throughout the universe.

Bates College welcomes new faculty for 2016–17

Friday, September 23, 2016 8:00 am

Bates College hired twice as many new tenure-track faculty this year as in 2015. Let's meet them.