May

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...

Brian's thesis was entitled Bayesian Analysis of 21 Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey and No Evidence for a Redshift Evolution." His advisor was Griffin Hosseinzadeh. Brian has submitted it to both arXiv and the ApJ. In...

Amber will be heading to the University of Texas at Austin as an Early Career Fellow. This postdoctoral position is unique in that in addition to furthering her research on the radiation environments of low-mass stars, she will also be mentored on how to...

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) / Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) is pleased to announce that Dr. Jane Huang is the winner of the 2020 Robert L. Brown Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, for her Harvard Dissertation, Rings and...

Congratulations to Ellen Price for winning the 2021 Eric R. Keto Prize for Graduate Students in Theoretical Astrophysics. Ellen won for her thesis “Simulating Protoplanetary Disk Dynamics and Investigating their Exoplanet Outcomes.” Karin Oberg was her...

Alessandra switched her concentration to Astronomy only a year ago, just in time to win the most prestigious prizes for her senior thesis "“Unlocking the Key to Life: Observation and Formation of Nitriles in Protoplanetary Disks". Karin Öberg was her...