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Dave Charbonneau has been selected for a  2023 Everett I. Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award

March 14, 2023

Dave Charbonneau has been selected for a  2023 Everett I. Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award (https://engage.gsas.harvard.edu/news/218515) .  This is hosted by the Graduate Student Council and is presented annually to one or more Harvard faculty members on the basis of nominations from GSAS students.   ...

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Alyssa Goodman and Pat Udomprasert awarded NASA Science Activation project entitled "Cosmic Storytelling with NASA Data"

March 1, 2021

NASA is funding 30 awards across the U.S to implement the next phase of Science Activation—a community-based approach to connect NASA science with learners of all ages. 

The Astronomy project is entitled Cosmic Storytelling with NASA Data (CosmicDS).  The CosmicDS project will facilitate connections between astronomers who want to tell the story of a discovery and inspire learners by letting them interrogate the data behind the story on their own, using easy-to-use but powerful data science and visualization techniques. ...

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Lars Hernquist

2020 Gruber Prize in Cosmology has been awarded to Harvard's Lars Hernquist and Volker Springel of the Max Planck Institute

May 6, 2020

Citations reads: "The 2020 Gruber Cosmology Prize recognizes Lars Hernquist, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and Volker Springel, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, for their defining contributions to cosmological simulations, a method that tests existing theories of, and inspires new investigations into, the formation of structures at every scale from stars to galaxies to the universe itself."

Press release:  https://gruber.yale.edu/2020-gruber-cosmology-prize-...

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Avi Loeb

Prof. Avi Loeb, Chair of the Astronomy Department, nominated to serve on White House Science and Technology Advisory Committee.

April 22, 2020

The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is an advisory group of the Nation's leading scientists and engineers, appointed by the President to augment the science and technology advice available to him from inside the White House and from cabinet departments and other Federal agencies.   Prof. Loeb's nomination is subject to approval by Congress.  Also nominated was Dr. Daniela Rus, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence...

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