2012

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)...

The Astronomy department senior lecturer, Phil Sadler, won the Robert A. Millikan Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). The Robert A Millikan Medal recognizes those who have made notable and intellectually creative contributions to...

Avi Loeb was awarded the " Cattedra Galileiana" for the 2011-12 Academic Year at the Scoule Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. He will give 4 lectures on Cosmology related to this award. The award was named after Galileo Galilei who was born in Pisa and...

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Swift The cores of most galaxies are thought to harbor black holes with masses of a million or more suns. But many remain unseen until an unlucky star passes too close and is pulled apart by tidal forces. The stellar...

The Annie Jump Cannon Award for outstanding research and promise for future research by a woman goes to Heather Knutson (Caltech) "for her pioneering work on the characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres." Knutson's groundbreaking observations of...

Many of you watched the spiral arm movie on the ITC display near the elevator. This beautiful movie, produced by the ITC members: Elena D'Onghia, Mark Vogelsberger, and Lars Hernquist, has been selected to be exhibited between 2/11-4/7, 2012 at the...

Registration is now open for the Seventh Harvard-Smithsonian Conference on Theoretical Astrophysics: Testing General Relativity (GR) with Astrophysical Systems, to be held May 14th through 17th, 2012 in Cambridge, MA. For the scientific program, list of...

This article appeared in Nature magazine entitled " Tough Science: Five Experiments as Hard as Finding the Higgs," by science writer Nicola Jones,The five projects with highlighted researchers that he selected are: Distant signs of Life ( Charbonneau)...