Ashley Villar has been awarded an Aramont Fellowship to develop a "foundation model" (a large machine learning model) for understanding transient phenomena in the era of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. A description of the Fellowship and projects can be found ... Read more about Professor Ashley Villar awarded Aramont Fellowship
Upon his retirement in 2000 after a 40 year-long career, Harvard professor Owen J. Gingerich had, with astronomer David W. Latham, taught the longest-running Harvard course under continuous leadership. He died on May 28, 2023 at the age of 93.