February

Credit: NASA/JPL- Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC) How did the first stars and galaxies bring the young universe out of its dark ages and into the light? Three prominent researchers, including Harvard Astronomy Professor Avi Loeb, discuss how new instruments and...

Kaisey Mandel (Harvard Ph.D. Astronomy 2011), who is currently a postdoc in the Astrostatistics group at Imperial College London has been notified that he is a finalist for this year's Savage Award for the best doctoral dissertation by the International...

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...