Floor Broekgaarden (Astronomy, PhD, 2023) wins Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics

April 18, 2024

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 presentation of research results. The annual award consists of $1,500 for the recipient, a certificate, registration waiver, and all finalists will receive a travel reimbursement up to $750 in order to present their work in an invited session at the APS April Meeting.

Floor defended her thesis "Gravitational-Wave Paleontology: A New...

Astronomers detail oscillation of our giant neighbor

April 15, 2024

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 of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, where the undulation was discovered, the team now reports in Nature...

Astronomy grad student Claire Lamman named a 2024 Harvard Horizons Scholar

April 1, 2024

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 extraordinary researchers who make up Harvard’s PhD community. These eight students form the eleventh class of the Society of Horizons Scholars, a fellowship cohort that offers opportunities for long-lasting community, mentorship...

Professor Ashley Villar awarded Aramont Fellowship

February 14, 2024

Ashley Villar has been awarded an Aramont Fellowship to develop a "foundation model" (a large machine learning model) for understanding transient phenomena in the era of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. A description of the Fellowship and projects can be found ... Read more about Professor Ashley Villar awarded Aramont Fellowship

Grad Student Emily Pass wins Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize at the AAS 243

February 7, 2024

Congratulations to Grad Student Emily Pass, who won the Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize at the AAS 243: https://aas.org/rodger-doxsey-travel-prize-winners

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Harvard Students win Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Award!!

February 5, 2024

The AAS announced the ...

Astronomy grad student Vedant Chandra led a paper announcing the discovery of a stellar component of the Magellanic Stream

September 20, 2023

Astronomy grad student Vedant Chandra led a paper announcing the discovery of a stellar component of the Magellanic Stream - an enormous ribbon of gas that dominates the southern sky - resolving a decades-long search for such a population of stars. The paper is in press at the ... Read more about Astronomy grad student Vedant Chandra led a paper announcing the discovery of a stellar component of the Magellanic Stream

Harvard Astronomy Grad Student Erandi Chavez makes the NYTimes

August 18, 2023

Read about the study that Erandi Chavez led. Read more about Harvard Astronomy Grad Student Erandi Chavez makes the NYTimes

Astronomer Owen Gingerich, Defender of Pluto and Scientist With Spirituality, Dies at 93

July 27, 2023

Upon his retirement in 2000 after a 40 year-long career, Harvard professor Owen J. Gingerich had, with astronomer David W. Latham, taught the longest-running Harvard course under continuous leadership. He died on May 28, 2023 at the age of 93.

Read the Crimson obituary.

Grad student Sophia Sánchez-Maes awarded the Theory-Experiment Cross Training Fellowship (TEX) from the John Templeton Foundation

June 23, 2023

Sophia Sánchez-Maes has been awarded the Theory-Experiment Cross Training Fellowship (TEX) from the John Templeton Foundation. Sophia Sanchez-Maes Prize

Under the fellowship, Sophia is studying solar plasma physics, focusing on flares, from both X-ray instrumentation...

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