2016

The American Astronomical Society has selected Professor Charlie Conroy to receive the Helen. B. Warner Prize for 2017. The prize includes a cash award and an invitation to give a plenary talk, hopefully at the upcoming summer AAS meeting in Austin, Texas...

Watch White House Fellow and Harvard Astronomy Graduate Student Anjali Tripathi's featured TED talk entitled "Why Earth May Someday Look like Mars" http://www.ted.com/talks/anjali_tripathi_why_earth_may_someday_look_lik…

Congratulations to Munazza Alam, Harvard graduate student in astronomy & astrophysics, for being selected as a National Geographic Young Explorer! Learn more about this extraordinary researcher in her online interview. Read More: http://news...

Harvard undergraduate Charles Law '17 has been selected for the prestigious Universities Space Research Association (USRA) Scholarship Award. The President and CEO of USRA, Jeffrey Isaacson, presented Law with the Frederick Tarantino Memorial Scholarship...

"A vibrant scientific culture encourages many interpretations of evidence, argues Avi Loeb. Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/good-data-are-not-enough-1.20906

The Harvard Astronomy department endorses the Code of Ethics of the American Astronomical Society and abides by its guiding principles.

The Harvard Gazette features Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin who was promoted as the first woman to receive a full-time, non-female-only professorship from Harvard College. Link: Written in the Stars

Harvard Undergraduate Astronomy Alumni Dr. Nancy A. Levenson (1989) appointed Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute. Read More: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2016/36

Harvard graduate student and astrophysicist Anjali Tripathi has been named a White House Fellow for 2016-17. She is one of 16 Fellows selected from more than 1,000 applicants. Tripathi's biography and additional information are in the White House...

arXive Paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.07345v1.pdf Gizmodo: " Astronomer Avi Loeb Is Here to Talk to You About Exoplanets" NY Times: “ One star over, a planet that might be another Earth” Associated Press: “ Jackpot: Scientists find Earth-like planet at...