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Astronomy 191 Bell Labs Trip

Astronomy 191 Bell Labs Trip

Tuesday, August 16, 2022
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Graduation 2022

Thursday, May 26, 2022
Graduation 2022

Graduation 2022

Thursday, May 26, 2022
Dance Your PhD

Astrophysics Student Wins International 'Dance Your PhD' Competition

Friday, February 25, 2022
Fireman family

Two new alumni, Amber Medina and Theron Carmichael, both 2021 recipients of an Edward Fireman Fellowship

Friday, May 28, 2021
Jane Huang

Jane Huang Receives the 2020 Robert L. Brown Outstanding Dissertation Award and the 2020 IAU PhD Prize

Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Ellen Price

Ellen Price wins 2021 Eric R. Keto Prize in Theoretical Astrophysics

Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Brian

Brian Hsu awarded the department's 2021 Goldberg Prize for best junior research thesis.

Friday, May 14, 2021
Allessandra

Graduating senior, Alessandra Canta, winner of both a College Hoopes Prize and the Department's Senior Goldberg Prize.

Friday, May 14, 2021
Ellen Price

Graduating student Ellen Price receives a 51Pegasi b post-doctoral Fellowship from the Heising-Simons Foundation.

Thursday, April 1, 2021
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Spotlight: Shelley Cheng

Shelley Cheng

Shelley Cheng is a Peirce Fellowship PhD student working with Avi Loeb on star formation in quasar accretion disks. She is originally from Sydney, Australia and completed her Bachelor's of Science in Physics at UCLA in June 2020. She has worked with Smadar Naoz and Michael Fitzgerald at UCLA on triple-body dynamics and exoplanets, and Jim Fuller at Caltech on asteroseismology. She mentors undergraduate students as part of Harvard University's WiSTEM Mentorship Program and served as a volunteer mentor for The Women+ of Color Project.

 

Shelley on hike with other grad students
 

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