Faculty

Harvard Astronomy Professor Karin Öberg has been appointed as the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences! Congratulations!

Karin Öberg has been selected for funding from the 2023 Zuckerman Travel and Research STEM Fund at Harvard University. The Fund supports the development of new research collaborations in STEM fields between faculty members and researchers in Harvard’s...

Dave Charbonneau has been selected for a 2023 Everett I. Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award ( https://engage.gsas.harvard. edu/news/218515) . This is hosted by the Graduate Student Council and is presented annually to one or more Harvard faculty...

NASA is funding 30 awards across the U.S to implement the next phase of Science Activation—a community-based approach to connect NASA science with learners of all ages. The Astronomy project is entitled Cosmic Storytelling with NASA Data (CosmicDS). The...

Citations reads: "The 2020 Gruber Cosmology Prize recognizes Lars Hernquist, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and Volker Springel, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, for their defining contributions to cosmological simulations, a...

The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology ( PCAST) is an advisory group of the Nation's leading scientists and engineers, appointed by the President to augment the science and technology advice available to him from inside the White...

Letter from Dean Claudine Gay: "I am delighted to share the news that your project, “Bringing the Real Universe to STEM Education with WorldWide Telescope,” will receive funding in the amount of $50,000 from the fall 2019 cycle of the Dean’s Competitive...

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Christopher Stubbs, the Samuel C. Moncher Professor of Physics and of Astronomy and an accomplished experimental physicist whose work explores the intersection of cosmology, particle physics, and gravitation, has been appointed dean of science by Edgerley...

More than 30,000 celestial images that were all but lost to science are about to find their way back into researchers’ hands thanks to the efforts of thousands of citizen scientists. The photographs, radio maps, and other telescopic images were scanned...