2024

Harvard Astronomy Professor David Charbonneau has won the 2024 Kavli Prize jointly with MIT astrophysicist and former Harvard grad student Sara Seager! Dave led the discovery team of the first transit of the giant exoplanet HD 209458b which allowed the...

The Astronomy Department congratulates the 2024 PhD students! Ana Maria Delgado defended her thesis on “Analyzing cosmological-hydrodynamical simulations in light of future optical surveys.” Her advisor was Lars Hernquist. Michael Foley defended his...

Charles Law (Harvard Ph.D. 2023) has been awarded the IAU Division H PhD Thesis Prize for 2023 for his thesis “Zooming in on the Chemistry of Star and Planet Formation." Division H President, Monica Rubio, and the Division H Steering Committee, “found Dr...

The 2024 Harvard Horizons Scholars, selected by the Harvard Horizons Faculty Fellows, are representatives of the extraordinary researchers who make up Harvard’s PhD community. They form the eleventh class of the Society of Horizons Scholars, a fellowship...

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Leo Goldberg Prizes for best undergraduate theses: Hanyue Wang accepts the Senior Award from Astronomy chair Daniel Eisenstein for her thesis "Galaxy Clustering and the Multpoint Correlation Function from the...

Harvard Astronomy Graduate Student Emily Pass was awarded the 2024 Fireman Fellowship of the Astronomy department for her PhD thesis, “ Terrestrial Planets in the Mid-to-Late M-Dwarf Context: Insights on the Spindown of Fully Convective Stars and the...

Congratulations to Harvard Astronomy seniors Emma Weller and Qijia Zhou, who have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa! They are both double concentrators with Physics. To be elected to Alpha-Iota of Massachusetts, the Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...

Floor Broekgaarden (Astronomy, PhD, 2023) was awarded the Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics by the APS. This award recognizes doctoral thesis in research in astrophysics, and encourages effective written and oral...

A few years ago, astronomers uncovered an enormous secret: A wave-shaped chain of gaseous clouds in our sun’s backyard, giving birth to clusters of stars along the spiral arm of the Milky Way. Having named this new structure the “ Radcliffe Wave” in honor...

Astronomy grad student Claire Lamman has been named a 2024 Harvard Horizons Scholar. Harvard Griffin GSAS is pleased to announce the 2024 Harvard Horizons Scholars, who have been selected by the Harvard Horizons Faculty Fellows as representatives of the...