Jennifer Bergner is awarded the Edward J. Fireman Fellowship for best graduate dissertation in her work as an astrochemist observer and experimentalist.

May 29, 2019

Picture to the right is Jennifer with Rita Fireman, wife of Edward Fireman during the Honors Ceremony on May 29, 2019. Pictured below are members of the Fireman family who annually attend the awarding of this fellowship, along with Irwin Shapiro (left) who was the Director of the Center for Astrophysics when the Fellowship was first instituted. Jennifer was advised by Karin Öberg.

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Goldberg Prizes awarded to Astronomy concentrators Soley Hyman, Mma Ikwut-Ukwa and Amir Siraj at end of year Awards Ceremony

May 29, 2019

Amir Siraj was awarded the Goldberg prize for best Junior thesis working with Avi Loeb as his advisor. Soley Hyman was awarded the Goldberg prize for best Senior thesis working with Belinda Wilkes. Not pictured is Mma Ikwut-Ukwa who also received a Goldberg prize for her junior thesis working with David Latham.

At a gathering of faculty and undergrads, Prof. Jonathan Grindlay announced that Mahlet Shiferaw had been chosen to receive an USRA Scholarship Award

December 3, 2018

USA Team in the International Astronomy & Astrophysics Olympiad best performance yet in this year's trials.

November 14, 2018

AAS Press Officer Rick Fienberg standing at the eclipse in a field with lots of viewing equipment

AAS Press Officer Rick Fienberg (Harvard Astronomy PhD 1985) honored for national eclipse viewing safety and outreach

July 30, 2018

AAS Press Officer Rick Fienberg (Harvard Astronomy PhD 1985) is being honored with NASA’s Exceptional Public Achievement Medal “for exceptional service to the nation in [his] tireless efforts for the public’s safe solar viewing of the 2017 total solar eclipse.”... Read more about AAS Press Officer Rick Fienberg (Harvard Astronomy PhD 1985) honored for national eclipse viewing safety and outreach

Edo Berger presented Leo Goldberg prizes for excellence in a senior thesis to graduating senior Danielle Frostig.

Leo Goldberg prize for excellence in a senior thesis: Danielle Frostig

May 23, 2018

At the annual Awards Ceremony for the Department of Astronomy Edo Berger presented Leo Goldberg prizes for excellence in a senior thesis to Danielle Frostig,graduating senior.

Edo Berger presented Leo Goldman prizes for excellence in a senior thesis to graduating senior Eden Girma.

Eden Girma awarded 2018 Leo Goldberg prize and Hoopes Prize

May 23, 2018

Edo Berger also presented the Leo Goldberg prize for excellence in a senior thesis to Eden Girma. Eden is also a recipient of a University Hoopes Prize for the project entitled “Astrometric Detection of Intermediate Mass Black Holes.”

Fireman Fellowship Award to Philip Cowperthwaite

May 23, 2018

At the annual Awards Ceremony, Rita Fireman and Astronomy Chair Avi Loeb are seen presenting the Fireman Fellowship Award to Philip Cowperthwaite for this year's best dissertation in the field of Astrophysics at Harvard. This award is named in honor of Rita's husband, Edward Fireman, a long time physicist at the Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory. Phil is a student of Edo Berger and will be starting a Hubble Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena.

Astronomy graduate student, Xiawei Wang, was selected as one of the eight Harvard Horizons scholars

April 3, 2017

Congratulations to Astronomy graduate student, Xiawei Wang, was selected as one of the eight Harvard Horizons scholars. The symposium will take place on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 4:30PM in Sanders theater.
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Rebekah Dawson '13 Selected for 2017 Annie Jump Cannon Award

January 11, 2017

The 2017 Annie Jump Cannon Award for outstanding research and promise for the future by a postdoctoral woman scientist goes to Rebekah Dawson (Pennsylvania State University, Harvard Astronomy PhD 2013) for her work modeling the dynamical interactions of exoplanets in multiplanet systems. Her studies help explain exoplanets’ mutual orbital inclinations and eccentricities as well as their migration toward and away from each other and their host star. She has also...

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Prizes

Jennifer Bergner is awarded the Edward J. Fireman Fellowship for best graduate dissertation in her work as an astrochemist observer and experimentalist.

Goldberg Prizes awarded to Astronomy concentrators Soley Hyman, Mma Ikwut-Ukwa and Amir Siraj at end of year Awards Ceremony

At a gathering of faculty and undergrads, Prof. Jonathan Grindlay announced that Mahlet Shiferaw had been chosen to receive an USRA Scholarship Award

USA Team in the International Astronomy & Astrophysics Olympiad best performance yet in this year's trials.

AAS Press Officer Rick Fienberg (Harvard Astronomy PhD 1985) honored for national eclipse viewing safety and outreach

Leo Goldberg prize for excellence in a senior thesis: Danielle Frostig

Eden Girma awarded 2018 Leo Goldberg prize and Hoopes Prize

Fireman Fellowship Award to Philip Cowperthwaite

Astronomy graduate student, Xiawei Wang, was selected as one of the eight Harvard Horizons scholars

Rebekah Dawson '13 Selected for 2017 Annie Jump Cannon Award

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