April

Logan Wilson (Harvard '26) wins best poster at the Astronomy 205 class poster presentations in April 2025

Eighty-nine seniors received this year’s prestigious Hoopes Prize for outstanding research or scholarly work, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Prize Office announced Friday. The distinction—funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes ’19—comes with a $4,000...

Dave Charbonneau has won the Sackler Prize in Physics for 2012. This award recognizes Dave's seminal contributions to our understanding of extra-solar planets. The award will be presented at a ceremony in Tel Aviv on June 12th. Dave shares the award with...

Harvard Astronomy Professor and Department Chair was selected to be a 2012 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow. Founded in 1780, the Academy is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging...

"The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced its new fellows for 2012 in the United States and Canada on Thursday (April 12). The 181 recipients represent a diverse mix of scientific, scholarly, and artistic fields, and many of them are...

In physics, the value of a theory is measured by how well it agrees with experimental data. But how should the physics community gauge the value of an emerging theory that cannot yet be tested experimentally? With no reality check, a less than rigorous...