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Sophia Sánchez-Maes award prize for best paper

Grad student Sophia Sánchez-Maes was awarded the “Best Paper Prize” at SPIE conference

Monday, July 1, 2024
David Charbonneau Headshot

Congratulations Dave Charbonneau - 2024 Kavli Prize Laureate

Wednesday, June 12, 2024
2024 Astronomy PhD graduates in commencement regalia

Congratulations to the Class of 2024!

Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Charles Law headshot

Charles Law (Harvard Ph.D. 2023) wins the IAU Division H PhD Thesis Prize for 2023!

Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Claire Lamman headshot

Astronomy Grad Student Claire Lamman gives 2024 Harvard Horizons Scholars talk

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Goldberg Prizes for Undergrad theses awarded

Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Emily Pass awarded Fireman Prize by Daniel Eisenstein

Emily Pass awarded 2024 Fireman Prize

Monday, May 20, 2024

Harvard Astronomy seniors Emma Weller and Qijia Zhou elected to Phi Beta Kappa!

Thursday, May 16, 2024
Floor Broekgaarden head shot

Floor Broekgaarden (Astronomy, PhD, 2023) wins Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics

Thursday, April 18, 2024
Radcliff Wave

Astronomers detail oscillation of our giant neighbor

Monday, April 15, 2024
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Spotlight: Shelley Cheng

Shelley Cheng

Shelley Cheng is a Peirce Fellowship PhD student working with Charlie Conroy 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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