Graduate Student

This groundbreaking model of the universe called Illustris was created by a team of post-doc researchers headed up by Faculty member, Lars Hernquist, and graduate student, Dylan Nelson. This work was first described in a recent Nature article. "It's hard...

Celebrating the Impact of New Ideas and New Discoveries Sarah Rugheimer, Harvard Astronomy Graduate Student, was one of the eight selected Harvard Scholars who joined President Faust, Provost Alan Garber, FAS Dean Mike Smith, and GSAS Dean Xiao-Li Meng as...

"The landscape in Chile’s Atacama desert is Martian-like: dry, barren and flanked by volcanoes, and its high altitude and unpolluted skies make it a prime spot for stargazing. It was there, after a full night of such observation — and over a 4 p.m...

Sarah Rugheimer was selected as a 2014 Horizon Scholar . The Horizon Scholars are recognized as graduate students "whose ideas, innovations, and insights have the potential to reshape their disciplines." More Information: Graduate School Press Release

A group of graduate students, including six from the Harvard Department of Astronomy, developed and organized Communicating Science 2013, or “ ComSciCon 2013”, a first-of-its kind workshop on science communication specifically for grad students in the...

Harvard Astronomy graduate student Bekki Dawson and CFA Hubble postdoctoral fellow Matt Walker won the Block Prize at the Aspen Center for Physics Winter Conference this year. Organizers of each winter conference choose promising young physicists to...

Harvard graduate students Nicholas Stone and Rebekah Dawson were the recipients of the 2012 Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize—established through the support of his father, John Doxsey, and other friends, family, and colleagues—provides graduate students or...

Harvard Astronomy graduate student Nathan Sanders was recently awarded Harvard's "Bowdoin Prize in the Natural Sciences" for his essay entitled "Observing the Twenty-First Century Sky and Understanding the Universe." For more info see here: http://isites...

A vibrant online astronomy community created by PhD students highlights new research and advice for professional growth. Among the founders and contributors of Astrobites are, from left, Aaron Bray (G2), Elisabeth Newton (G2), Nathan Sanders (G2), Joshua...

Twelve students and postdocs from the Astronomy department were awarded Einstein/Hubble/Sagan fellowships in 2012: Laura Blecha, Smadar Naoz, Joey Neilsen and Meng Su were awarded an Einstein fellowship; Kaitlin Kratter, Matt McQuinn (former student)...