2019

Letter from Dean Claudine Gay: "I am delighted to share the news that your project, “Bringing the Real Universe to STEM Education with WorldWide Telescope,” will receive funding in the amount of $50,000 from the fall 2019 cycle of the Dean’s Competitive...

https://news.harvard.edu/ gazette/story/2019/12/tagging- along-on-a-student-led- historical-tour-of-harvard/ Crimson story link.

Quick link https://news.uchicago.edu/podcasts/big-brains/hunt-alien-life-and-exopl…

Harvard students and post-docs of Prof. John Kovac featured in this Harvard Gazette article with incredible photographs by Samuel Harrison and Hans Beonish.

A joint presentation of the Hebrew University Alumni Association and the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University. Professors Harvey Gutfreund (Hebrew University) and Avi Loeb (Harvard) to speak. Free, but registration is required. https://www.afhu.org...

Sarah is a Hugh Price Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford and was awarded the Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture for P hysical S ciences and Mathematics. She was previously awarded the inaugural Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship for a junior promising female...

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...

On Saturday, May 4th, these four Astronomy concentrators will perform on campus during the ARTS FIRST festival. See https://issuu.com/harvard_artsfirst/docs/arts_first_2019_guide_issuu for the full guide. Gennie Weiler ’21, Harvard Callbacks (5/4 Yard...

Rebekah Dawson received her PhD from Harvard in 2013 and is now Assistant Professor at Penn State, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. She delivered this year's Bok Prize Lecture, named after Bart Bok and Priscilla Fairfield Bok, both astronomers...