March

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...

Local public radio station WBUR recently broadcast a segment about the Watertown play Silent Sky about the Harvard College Observatory "computers:" Meredith Hughes (PhD 2010) is interviewed at the end of the segment about her great-grandmother, a former...

Prof. Soderberg participated in the 2015 BBC Stargazing Live television show at Jodrell Bank radio telescope ( http://www.jodrellbank.net/) during the total solar eclipse in the UK on March 20. Together with Professor Brian Cox and Dara O'Brianin, she...

"A song about the greatest astrophysics professor who ever lived: Edo Berger. After a trip to the Whipple Observatory in Mt. Hopkins AZ, the students in Astro 100 wanted to make a video about their experience there and, of course, about Edo." https:/...

A Science magazine issued a special issue in March, 2015 which was dedicated to the 100 years anniversary of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a project in which members of the Astronomy department are involved...