2023

Congratulations to the 2023 Leo Goldberg Prizes for best undergraduate theses: Chris Wirth for "A Search for Ultra-Short-Period Planets with TESS" wins the Senior Award. Qijia Zhou for "Competitive Entrapment of Hypervolatiles in Water Ice" wins the...

Congratulations to Floor Broekgaarden, winner of the2023 Keto Prize!! Floor won for her thesis “Gravitational-Wave Paleontology: A New Frontier to Probe Massive Binary Stars Across Cosmic History.” Her advisor was Edo Berger. The Eric R. Keto Prize for...

Congratulations to two Astronomy seniors who were awarded a Hoopes Prize! Maya Skarbinski, class of 2023, a prize of $5,000 for her project entitled "A JWST Library of Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions"—supervised and nominated by Professor Daniel...

Astronomy professor Karin Oberg has been selected for funding from the 2023 Zuckerman Travel and Research STEM Fund at Harvard University. The intent of this Fund is to support travel and meeting expenses for short-term visits (not to exceed 30 days) to...

Streamlining the Search for Black Holes https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/stories/streamlining-search-black-holes

Dave Charbonneau has been selected for a 2023 Everett I. Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award ( https://engage.gsas.harvard. edu/news/218515) . This is hosted by the Graduate Student Council and is presented annually to one or more Harvard faculty...