Graduate Student

Sonja Koehler, first-year astronomy graduate student at Harvard, was awarded the Walter Greiner Society and Goethe University prize for Best Degree Completion of the year in the Department of Physics. The winners are honored for their consistently...

Astronomy grad students Adam Distler and Matthew Werneken were announced as winners of 2026 Hertz Fellowships, providing financial and lifelong professional support for the nation’s most promising doctoral students in the applied sciences, engineering and...

Congratulations to Astronomy grad student Vedant Chandra and EPS grad student Collin Cherubim for winning 2026 NASA Hubble postdoc fellowships! Vedant matriculated at Harvard in 2021; his advisor is Charlie Conroy. He will be defending his thesis at...

Congratulations to Astronomy grad Maryam Hussaini for making the finals of the Harvard Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) --a competition for master's and doctoral students to develop and showcase their research communication skills in a language appropriate to a...

Harvard Astronomy grad Sophia Ridolfo was awarded a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Award Honorable Mention for her AAS247 poster research presentation ( https://aas.org/posts/news/2026/01/congratulations-aas-247-chambliss-st… ). Sophia...

Harvard Astronomy grad student Jesse Han finds evidence of new supermassive black hole in nearest galaxy ​​has implications for galactic evolution. Learn more: https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/massive-discovery?utm_source=SilverpopMai…) Jesse Han plans...

The Astronomy Department is pleased to award the 2025 Fireman Fellowship to Claire Lamman (GSAS, ’25), who was honored for the thesis "Untangling the Cosmic Web: Cosmology in the connections between galaxies and the large-scale structure of the Universe"...

The Astronomy Department congratulates Jiwon (Jesse) Han for winning the 2025 Keto Prize from the ITC for the thesis "The Galactic Halo in Stars and Shadows" (Advisor: Charlie Conroy). The Eric R. Keto Prize for Graduate Students in Theoretical...

The Astronomy Department congratulates our 2025 Class of doctoral graduates The Astronomy Department congratulates our 2025 Class of doctoral graduates Minjung Park, Claire Lamman, Mirand Eiben, Angus Beane, Mykhail (Misha) Rashkovetskyi, and Carlos...

The Astronomy Department congratulates fifth year grad student on being awarded the Price Prize from OSU CCAPP (Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics) in Cosmology and Astrophysics! Chandra’s research bridges observations, simulations, and...