Astronomy alumna Sara Seager wins prestigious MacArthur Fellowship

September 25, 2013
Astronomy alumna Sara Seager wins prestigious MacArthur Fellowship

Each year, the MacArthur Foundation names several dozen of the nation's most creative and influential people as MacArthur Fellows which provides funds for two years which the recipients can use toward any purpose. The Class of 2013 awardees includes Harvard alumna Sara Seager.  

Sara Seager is Professor of Planetary Science and Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Class of 1941 Professorship Chair.  She received her PhD in extrasolar planetary research from Harvard in 1999 under Dimitar Sasselov.   The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. There are three criteria for selection of Fellows: exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work.  Learn more here.