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Dave Charbonneau

Dave Charbonneau featured in University of Chicago Big Brains podcast on exoplanets.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Photo by Samuel Harrison

Harvard Gazette feature "Life Way Below Zero" Interviews and photos of BICEP research team at the South Pole.

Thursday, September 12, 2019
Albert Einstein

Relatively Speaking - Einstein and Black Holes to be offered at Harvard University on September 11, 2019 at 5:30 pm.

Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Scorpius

Alyssa Goodman: Astronomy Rewind fast-forwards to reanimate "Zombie" astrophotos thanks to thousands of citizen scientists.

Monday, July 15, 2019
Sara Rugheimer at Oxford

Alumna Sarah Rugheimer awarded the prestigious Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture

Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Rita Fireman with Jennifer Bergman

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

Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Soley and Amir, Goldberg Prize winners

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

Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Arts First

Four of our concentrators participating in ARTS FIRST Creativity Festival on campus on May 4. See schedule inside.

Tuesday, April 30, 2019
2018-19 Bok Prize Lecturer Bekki Dawson

Bekki Dawson (Phd 2013 Harvard) gives Bok Prize Lecture

Thursday, March 28, 2019
Prize

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

Monday, December 3, 2018
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Spotlight: Prof. Selma de Mink

Selma di Mink

Selma de Mink joins the Astronomy Department as Associate Professor in August this year.  Currently she resides at the ‘Anton Pannekoek’ Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics  and the GRAPPA institute for Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics at the University of Amsterdam and PI of the BinCosmos group.  De Mink obtained her degrees at the University of Utrecht where she completed her PhD thesis under supervision of Dr. O. R. Pols. She took a short postdoc at the Argelander Institute in Bonn with Prof. Dr. N. Langer, before moving to the US for a  NASA Hubble Fellowship. In 2013 she moved to California, to take an Einstein & Carnegie-Princeton (Lyman Spitzer) Fellowship to work at The Carnegie Institution for Science and Cahill institute for Astronomy (Caltech).

She returned to the Netherlands in 2014 as a MacGillavry Fellow and Marie Curie Fellow at Amsterdam. In 2017 she was awarded Merac early career award in theoretical astrophysics and recently the Pastoor Schmeits Prize. The big question that drives her work is the question about our own Cosmic History. How did (massive) stars help to transform the pristine, dark and hostile Universe that was left after the Big Bang into the modern, diverse and precious Universe in which we live today?

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