2015

Graduate student Catherine Zucker’s research was featured on the American Astronomical Society’s “Nova” (News) site! Cara Battersby, SMA postdoc collaborator & Catherine’s REU mentor is the other co-author. http://aasnova.org/2015/12/07/companions-for...

"Archaeologists and astronomers don’t seem to have much in common. One digs into the earth while the other looks at the sky, and a stone tool once wielded by Homo erectus couldn’t be more different from an exploding star at the edge of the visible...

"Our Sun is a relatively quiet star that only occasionally releases solar flares or blasts of energetic particles that threaten satellites and power grids. You might think that smaller, cooler stars would be even more sedate. However, astronomers have now...

Below is the video link just posted for Avi Loeb's lecture on " Black Holes " at the 100 Years Celebration of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity , held at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton on November 6, 2015,

Professor Ramesh Narayan was elected a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). TWAS is a global science academy based in Trieste, Italy, working to advance science and engineering for sustainable prosperity in the developing world. Read More: http...

Dear Colleagues, It is my great pleasure to announce the recipients of the 2015 Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching, Jene Golovchenko, Rumford Professor of Physics and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, and John Johnson, Professor...

L'oreal Prize to Harvard Astronomy Alumni Sarah Ballard. "NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- L'Oreal USA today announces the five recipients of the 2015 For Women in Science Fellowship, which honors female scientists at critical stages of their...

Dear Astronomy department colleagues, We have all read the distressing reports about Geoff Marcy in Buzzfeed, The Atlantic, AAAS, Forbes, Chronicles of Higher Education and The New York Times. It gives me pride to be a member of a department which played...

Avi Loeb (Harvard), Douglas Finkbeiner (Harvard), and Patrick Slane (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) have been selected as Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS). This is a high honor, restricted to 0.5% of the membership in a given year...

Below is the trailer of the BBC program on the Cosmic Dawn at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0320kx0 The program aired at 8PM England on September 9. The link to the video is below. You might be amused by the closing couple of minutes of where Avi Loeb...