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Doug Finkbeiner, Professor of Astronomy and Physics, has been named Senior Adviser on Generative AI for FAS by Dean Hopi Hoekstra. He replaces Christopher Stubbs, Samuel C. Moncher Professor of Physics and of Astronomy, in the role. In her announcement...

Harvard Astronomy professor Karin Öberg was awarded the Pius XI Medal. The award was conferred by Pope Leo XIV at an audience with the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on September 24,2026. The medal recognizes Karin's exceptional scientific research and...

Dr. Jesse Han (GSAS Astronomy '25) has won the 2026 Robert J. Trumpler Award! Awarded by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the Trumpler Award recognizes a recent PhD thesis that is considered unusually important to astronomy. Jesse defended his PhD...

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...

The Astronomy Department congratulates our 2026 Class of doctoral graduates Vedant Chandra, Shelley Cheng, Hyerin Cho, Victoria DiTomasso, Jiwon (Jesse) Han, Osase Omoruyi, Sophia Sanchez-Maes, and Alexia Simon.

Congratulations to the graduating Astronomy astrophysics concentrators! Our seniors this year are: Bruna Biz, Hannah Burrows, Callie Garcia, Sol Gutierrez-Lara, Amaan Khwaja, Thomas Leeds, Sophie Magaro, Ashini Modi, Mekhi Moore, Jasmine Palma Gomez...

The Astronomy Department congratulates Hyerin Cho for winning the 2026 Keto Prize from the ITC for the thesis " Black Hole Accretion and Feedback: From the Event Horizon to Galactic Scales" (Advisor: Ramesh Narayan). The Eric R. Keto Prize for Graduate...

The Astronomy Department is pleased to award the 2025 Fireman Fellowship to Vedant Chandra (GSAS, ’26), who was honored for the thesis "Mapping the Uncharted Horizons of the Milky Way." Advisor: Charlie Conroy The gift of Rita S. Fireman to the Harvard...

The 2026 Goldberg Prizes awarded to Astronomy concentrators Larom Segev and Carl (Cal) Guia at end of year Awards Ceremony on May 26, 2026. Larom Segev won the senior Goldberg Prize for developing an automatic scheduler for the Rubin Telescope as it...

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...