The Bullitt Scholarships and Bullitt Awards for the Best Paper in Astronomy

Through a generous donation from the William Marshall Bullitt family, which endowed the annual Bullitt Lectures in Astronomy, there are two annual awards made to students in the Dept. of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Louisville. Both of these awards are selected by a group of faculty in the department involved in teaching or research in astronomy, and may also include other faculty members, approved by the department faculty as a whole.

  1. The Bullitt Scholarship - for undergraduates: This is based on a student's academic record, including both coursework and research, and also on interest and future goals with respect to astronomy. It may be divided among two or more students.
  2. The Best Paper in Astronomy Award - for graduate students and undergraduates: This is based on written piece of work which has been
  • submitted or published in a scholarly journal, or
  • presented at a conference, or
  • is in an advanced draft state, nearly ready to be submitted to a journal. Published work which involves collaborations involving multiple students is allowed.

Details are as follows.

The Bullitt Scholarships is awarded to one or more College of Arts & Sciences undergraduates who are majoring in Physics and Astronomy with a concentration in astronomy.1 Students who meet these criteria should please submit the following supporting material:

  1. Current transcript,
  2. Statement of academic accomplishments and interests, including research and/or teaching experience (e.g., UTA, REACH tutor), and synergistic activities, broadly defined (e.g., outreach, RSO involvement).

Both financial need and merit are considered.
1The endowment stipulates that candidates shall be Kentucky natives.

 

The Bullitt Award for the Best Paper in Astronomy is awarded to a UofL undergraduate or graduate student who is judged to have submitted the best paper on a topic in astronomy.2 Please submit the following supporting material:

  1.  One journal paper, conference paper, poster, or similar dissemination,
  2.  Statement of context for the paper.

2The endowment stipulates that preference shall be given to Kentucky natives.

 

DEADLINES: Please forward this suppor8ng material by email to the Physics & Astronomy Office: katherine.klotz'at'louisville.edu by 11:59pm, Thursday September 28, 2023.

Past Awards (please send corrections to G. Williger):

Bullitt Scholars

  • 2001-02 - no award
  • 2002-03 - Allison Gregg, Jeff Hay
  • 2003-04 - no award
  • 2004-05 - Nicholas Ivan Arnold
  • 2005-06 - no award
  • 2006-07 - Blakesley Burkhart, David Wesley Miller
  • 2007-08 - Patrick McQuillen
  • 2008-09 - Jamie Todd
  • 2009-10 - Matt Nichols, Ryan Sanders
  • 2010-11 - Mark Capece, Shannon MacKenzie
  • 2011-12 - Jenna Lichtenberger
  • 2012-13 - Jared Keown, Blake Pantoja
  • 2013-14 - Bryan Enders, Eric Feil, David Warder
  • 2014-15 - Breanna Ausbrooks, Brian Leist, Asha Nagaiya

Best Paper in Astronomy Award

  • 2010-11 - Joe Burchett: Enhanced Public Outreach with Asteroseismology (unpublished manuscript)
  • 2011-12 - Karen Collins, 5th author of 32, in Siverd et al. (2012): KELT-1b: A Strongly Irradiated, Highly Inflated, Short Period, 27 Jupiter-mass Companion... 2012, ApJ, 761, 123
  • 2012-13 - Jeremy Hornbeck et al.: PDS 144: The First Confirmed Herbig Ae-Herbig Ae Wide Binary, 2012, ApJ, 744, 54
  • 2013-14 - Karen Collins et al.: KELT-6b: A P~7.9 day Hot Saturn Transiting a Metal-Poor Star with a Long-Period Companion, arXiv:1308.2296, 2014, AJ, 147, 39
  • 2014-15 - Asha Nagaiya, 4th author of 6, in MOrrison et al. (2014), "Numerical Methods for solving the Hartree-Fock equations of diatomic molecules II", J. Computational Physics, subm.