Floor Broekgaarden (Astronomy, PhD, 2023) was awarded the Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics by the APS. This award recognizes doctoral thesis in research in astrophysics, and encourages effective written and oral presentation of research results. The annual award consists of $1,500 for the recipient, a certificate, registration waiver, and all finalists will receive a travel reimbursement up to $750 in order to present their work in an invited session at the APS April Meeting.

Floor defended her thesis "Gravitational-Wave Paleontology: A New...

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 A few years ago, astronomers uncovered an enormous secret: A wave-shaped chain of gaseous clouds in our sun’s backyard, giving birth to clusters of stars along the spiral arm of the Milky Way.

Having named this new structure the “Radcliffe Wave” in honor of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, where the undulation was discovered, the team now reports in Nature...

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Astronomy grad student Claire Lamman has been named a 2024 Harvard Horizons Scholar.

Harvard Griffin GSAS is pleased to announce the 2024 Harvard Horizons Scholars, who have been selected by the Harvard Horizons Faculty Fellows as representatives of the extraordinary researchers who make up Harvard’s PhD community. These eight students form the eleventh class of the Society of Horizons Scholars, a fellowship cohort that offers opportunities for long-lasting community, mentorship...

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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

Congratulations to Grad Student Emily Pass, who won the Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize at the AAS 243: https://aas.org/rodger-doxsey-travel-prize-winners

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Astronomy grad student Vedant Chandra led a paper announcing the discovery of a stellar component of the Magellanic Stream - an enormous ribbon of gas that dominates the southern sky - resolving a decades-long search for such a population of stars. The paper is in press at the ... Read more about Astronomy grad student Vedant Chandra led a paper announcing the discovery of a stellar component of the Magellanic Stream

Read about the study that Erandi Chavez led. Read more about Harvard Astronomy Grad Student Erandi Chavez makes the NYTimes

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.

Read the Crimson obituary.

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Sophia Sánchez-Maes has been awarded the Theory-Experiment Cross Training Fellowship (TEX) from the John Templeton Foundation.

Under the fellowship, Sophia is studying solar plasma physics, focusing on flares, from both X-ray instrumentation...

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Congratulations to the Astronomy Class of 2023!!!

 

 

Harvard Astronomy Graduate Student Juliana Garcia-Mejia was awarded the 2023 Fireman Fellowship of the Astronomy department for her PhD thesis, "...

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Harvard Astronomy Professor Karin Öberg has been appointed as the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences! Congratulations!

Karin Öberg has been selected for funding from the 2023 Zuckerman Travel and Research STEM Fund at Harvard University. The Fund supports the development of new research... Read more about Karin Öberg receives 2023 Zuckerman Travel and Research STEM Fund

The Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) will present the Centennial Medal to six distinguished alumni on May 24, 2023, culminating a year of celebration of the School’s 150th anniversary. The Centennial Medal, which recognizes those who have made fundamental and lasting contributions to knowledge, their disciplines, their colleagues, and society, is the highest honor that the Harvard Griffin GSAS bestows.

 

Catherine Cesarsky, PhD ’71, Astronomy

Catherine Cesarsky’s trailblazing achievements in astronomy are...

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Congratulations to the 2023 FAS Hoopes Prize winners for best senior theses:

Brian Hsu, working with Edo Berger

Maya Skarbinski, working with Daniel Eisenstein

 

 

Congratulations to the 2023 Leo Goldberg Prizes for best undergraduate theses:

Chris Wirth for "A Search for Ultra-Short-Period Planets with TESS" wins the Senior Award.

Qijia Zhou for "Competitive Entrapment of Hypervolatiles in Water Ice" wins the Junior Award

 

Junior Goldberg Prize winner...

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Congratulations to Floor Broekgaarden, winner of the2023 Keto Prize!!

Floor won for her thesis “Gravitational-Wave Paleontology: A New Frontier to Probe Massive Binary Stars Across Cosmic History.” Her advisor was Edo Berger.

 

The Eric R. Keto Prize for Graduate Students in Theoretical Astrophysics, endowed with a generous donation by ITC Senior Member Eric Keto, is awarded each year for the best thesis in theoretical astrophysics by a student at the CfA, as selected by the Senior Members of the ITC. The restriction is...

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Congratulations to two Astronomy seniors who were awarded a Hoopes Prize!

Maya Skarbinski, class of 2023, a prize of $5,000 for her project entitled "A JWST Library of Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions"—supervised and nominated by Professor Daniel Eisenstein

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Astronomy professor Karin Oberg has been selected for funding from the 2023 Zuckerman Travel and Research STEM Fund at Harvard University.  The intent of this Fund is to support travel and meeting expenses for short-term visits (not to exceed 30 days) to catalyze new collaborations. The Fund supports the development of new research collaborations in STEM fields between faculty members and researchers in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences (FAS) or John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and their counterparts at research institutions in Israel