In case you haven't already heard the news about Ryan Hickox - a former Harvard grad student - now tenured professor at Dartmouth!  Ryan also is one of the first "house professors" in the house system that Dartmouth is expanding:  

https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2015/05/house-professors-named-residential-communities

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Astronomy Undergraduates in Ay100 Observational Astronomy course over spring break went on a trip. They traveled to the Desert Museum, University of Arizona mirror lab to see telescope mirrors being made, and to Whipple observatory to observe on the 1.2-m and 1.5-m telescope collecting data for their class project.

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Dear Colleagues,

I am very sorry to report that our colleague Pat Thaddeus passed away this morning. 

Pat was a highly influential teacher and astronomer for over 50 years, including the past 30 at the CfA. His interests were extremely broad, including pioneering work on the cosmic microwave background radiation, planetary atmospheres, and large-scale studies of star formation and galactic structure. He was one of the founders of the now flourishing field of astrochemistry.  His elegant laboratory spectroscopy provided ironclad identifications of many new molecules… Read more about Pat Thaddeus

Listen to Hannah Devlin interview with Avi Loeb. 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2017/apr/20/breakthrough-stars...

Read an interview with Dava Sobel about her book the Glass Universe about the Harvard College Observatory. 

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/star-analysts-of-harvard-c...(1)

It's the ten year anniversary of the Origins of Life Initiative. 

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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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"A new citizen-science project will rescue tens of thousands of potentially valuable cosmic images that are mostly dead to science and bring them fully back to life. Called Astronomy Rewind, the effort, which launches today (22 March 2017), will take photographs, radio maps, and other telescopic images that have been scanned from the pages of dusty old journals and place them in context in digital sky atlases and catalogs. Anyone will then be able to find them online and compare them with modern electronic data from ground-… Read more about With Astronomy Rewind, Citizen Scientists Bring Zombie Astrophotos Back to Life