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Ellen Price

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

Thursday, April 1, 2021
Laura Blecha

Alumna Prof. Laura Blecha named 2021 Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.

Monday, March 22, 2021
Jennifer Bergner

Alumna Jennifer Bergner awarded AAS Laboratory Astrophysics Division 2021 Dissertation Prize

Monday, March 15, 2021
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Alyssa Goodman and Pat Udomprasert awarded NASA Science Activation project entitled "Cosmic Storytelling with NASA Data"

Monday, March 1, 2021
Amir Siraj

Senior Concentrator Amir Siraj awarded a place in the Forbes 30 Under 30 for 2021. He is the youngest member in this year's Science cohort.

Wednesday, December 2, 2020
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Recent alumni help government COVID-19 data and epidemiology efforts

Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Karin Oberg

Professor of Astronomy Karin Öberg is the recipient of a 2020 Simons Investigator award.

Friday, June 26, 2020
Mahlet Shiferaw

Graduating Concentrator, Mahlet Shiferaw, featured in a Harvard Gazette story. She is on her way to Stanford University.

Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Amir Siraj

Astronomy concentrator, Amir Siraj, is recipient of Harvard College Hoopes Prize and the department's Goldberg Prize.

Friday, May 22, 2020
Tom Wagg

Tom Wagg receives a Senior Goldberg Prize along with Noel Chou who was awarded the Junior Goldberg Prize.

Monday, May 18, 2020
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Upcoming Events

  • Sandy Yuan Dissertation Colloquium
    4/20/2021 10:00am
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    4/23/2021 2:00pm
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    4/29/2021 11:00am
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    4/30/2021 9:30am
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    5/3/2021 9:00am
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Spotlight: Shelley Cheng

Shelley Cheng

Shelley Cheng is a Peirce Fellowship PhD student working with Ramesh Narayan on general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of black hole 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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