May

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...

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...

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...

Congratulations to the Astronomy Class of 2023!!!

Harvard Astronomy Graduate Student Juliana Garcia-Mejia was awarded the 2023 Fireman Fellowship of the Astronomy department for her PhD thesis, " The Tierras Observatory: An Ultra-precise Time-series Photometer to Characterize Nearby Low-mass Stars and...

Harvard Astronomy Professor Karin Öberg has been appointed as the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences! Congratulations!

Karin Öberg has been selected for funding from the 2023 Zuckerman Travel and Research STEM Fund at Harvard University. The Fund supports the development of new research collaborations in STEM fields between faculty members and researchers in Harvard’s...

Congratulations to the 2023 FAS Hoopes Prize winners for best senior theses: Brian Hsu, working with Edo Berger Maya Skarbinski, working with Daniel Eisenstein

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...