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The Harvard Crimson interviewed Physics and Astronomy professor Chris Stubbs. Read the interview here.

Congratulations to Astronomy grad student Vedant Chandra and EPS grad student Collin Cherubim for winning 2026 NASA Hubble postdoc fellowships! Vedant matriculated at Harvard in 2021; his advisor is Charlie Conroy. He will be defending his thesis at...

Congratulations to Astronomy grad Maryam Hussaini for making the finals of the Harvard Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) --a competition for master's and doctoral students to develop and showcase their research communication skills in a language appropriate to a...

Astronomy professor Karin Öberg will serve as Harvard’s next senior vice provost for faculty, coordinating faculty recruitment and appointment reviews, the University announced Friday. Öberg’s appointment, set to begin in July, comes roughly a week after...

Harvard Astronomy grad Sophia Ridolfo was awarded a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Award Honorable Mention for her AAS247 poster research presentation ( https://aas.org/posts/news/2026/01/congratulations-aas-247-chambliss-st… ). Sophia...

Jennifer Bergner , Assistant Professor in Chemistry at UC Berkeley, delivered the Bok Prize Lecture on "The icy origins of planetary systems ," on January 27, 2026. Kenzie Bok, the great-granddaughter of Bart J. Bok, represented the Bok family and...

Congratulations to Astronomy Assistant Professor Ashley Villar for winning two RSCA Awards: Bridge Award: Support for “Luminous Supernovae in the Rubin Era” research. The Bridge Award is for universities disrupted by federal policy changes. Scialog Award...

Lars Hernquist, Mallinckrodt Professor of Astrophysics at Harvard, received the 2026 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship at the AAS 247 conference in January 2026. The honor celebrates a career of eminence in astronomical research, for a lifetime of...

On Behalf of DESI, Harvard Astronomy Professor Daniel Eisenstein Receives 2026 Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration is an international...

Andrew Vanderburg, Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University, was awarded the AAS 2025 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy during the AAS 247 conference in January 2026. His research focuses on studying exoplanets, or planets which orbit...