May

Alexander Krolewski, has been awarded a Hoopes Prize for the project entitled "Measuring the luminosity and black hole mass dependence of quasar-galaxy clustering at z ~ 0.8." Natania Wolansky, has been awarded a Hoopes Prize for the project entitled "Are...

Congratulations to all our 2013 graduates in Astronomy. Pictured below are the five graduates who attended the May 30 th degree-awarding ceremony. In addition, Lauranne Lanz and Diego Munoz will be completing their degree requirements in August. Along...

Bekki Dawson was awarded the 2013 Fireman Fellowship of the Astronomy department for her PhD thesis, "On the Migratory Behavior of Planetary Systems." Department chair Avi Loeb presented the award to Dawson at the annual departmental awards ceremony on...

Artist's conception of Kepler-76b, orbiting its elongated star David A. Aguilar (CfA) A new method for detecting planet that Loeb & Gaudi proposed in 2003 was demonstrated to work and a new planet, Kepler 76b, was discovered with it. Read More: Wired UK...