Prizes

The Eric R. Keto Prize for Graduate Students in Theoretical Astrophysics, endowed with a generous donation by ITC Senior Member Eric Keto, is awarded each year for the best thesis in theoretical astrophysics by a student at the CfA, as selected by the...

Picture to the right is Jennifer with Rita Fireman, wife of Edward Fireman during the Honors Ceremony on May 29, 2019. Pictured below are members of the Fireman family who annually attend the awarding of this fellowship, along with Irwin Shapiro (left)...

Amir Siraj was awarded the Goldberg prize for best Junior thesis working with Avi Loeb as his advisor. Soley Hyman was awarded the Goldberg prize for best Senior thesis working with Belinda Wilkes. Not pictured is Mma Ikwut-Ukwa who also received a...

Harvard Junior, Mahlet Shiferaw, was awarded the USRA Scholarship in a ceremony in the CfA Library late November. National Press Release: https://newsroom.usra.edu/recognizing-outstanding-future-space-scientis…

Historical Results for Team USA in the International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics Over three hundred students from thirty-eight countries competed in the 12th International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics in Beijing, China from November...

AAS Press Officer Rick Fienberg (Harvard Astronomy PhD 1985) is being honored with NASA’s Exceptional Public Achievement Medal “for exceptional service to the nation in [his] tireless efforts for the public’s safe solar viewing of the 2017 total solar...

At the annual Awards Ceremony for the Department of Astronomy Edo Berger presented Leo Goldberg prizes for excellence in a senior thesis to Danielle Frostig,graduating senior.

Edo Berger also presented the Leo Goldberg prize for excellence in a senior thesis to Eden Girma. Eden is also a recipient of a University Hoopes Prize for the project entitled “Astrometric Detection of Intermediate Mass Black Holes.”

At the annual Awards Ceremony, Rita Fireman and Astronomy Chair Avi Loeb are seen presenting the Fireman Fellowship Award to Philip Cowperthwaite for this year's best dissertation in the field of Astrophysics at Harvard. This award is named in honor of...

Congratulations to Astronomy graduate student, Xiawei Wang, was selected as one of the eight Harvard Horizons scholars. The symposium will take place on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 4:30PM in Sanders theater. Read more