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The American Astronomical Society has selected Professor Charlie Conroy to receive the Helen. B. Warner Prize for 2017

The American Astronomical Society has selected Professor Charlie Conroy to receive the Helen. B. Warner Prize for 2017

January 10, 2017

The American Astronomical Society has selected Professor Charlie Conroy to receive the Helen. B. Warner Prize for 2017.  The prize includes a cash award and an invitation to give a plenary talk, hopefully at the upcoming summer AAS meeting in Austin, Texas.  AAS Press Release 

The Helen B. Warner Prize is given annually for a significant contribution to observational...

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President Obama Honors Federally-Funded Early-Career Scientists

President Obama Honors Federally-Funded Early-Career Scientists

January 9, 2017

In recognition of his work in advancing the most sensitive measurements of polarization of the cosmic microwave background, the faint fossil radiation from the Big Bang, Professor John Kovac was selected by President Obama as one of 102 scientists and researchers as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on...

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USRA Award Presentation for Charles Law

Charles Law '17 has been selected for the prestigious Universities Space Research Association (USRA) Scholarship Award

November 4, 2016

Harvard undergraduate Charles Law '17 has been selected for the prestigious Universities Space Research Association (USRA) Scholarship Award.

The President and CEO of USRA, Jeffrey Isaacson, presented Law with the Frederick Tarantino Memorial Scholarship Award at a ceremony held November 2 during the USRA annual meeting located at Harvard this year. Also present at the ceremony was Dan Milisavljevic (SAO Postdoctoral Fellow who supervised Law as a PRISE fellow), Edo Berger (Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies), and Jonathan Grindlay (Professor and USRA representative)....

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Adam Riess, Nobel Laureate and ’96 alumnus of the Harvard Astronomy Department, named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins

July 11, 2016

Adam Riess, Nobel Laureate and ’96 alumnus of the Harvard Astronomy Department, has just been named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins. Supported by a $350M gift from Michael Bloomberg, the BDPs will form a cohort of 50 world-class, interdisciplinary scholars at Johns Hopkins. Adam is the 7th internally selected faculty member to be chosen for this honor.

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Dave Charbonneau awarded a Blavatnik Fellowship

Dave Charbonneau awarded a Blavatnik Fellowship

June 21, 2016

Dave Charbonneau has been awarded the 2016 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences & Engineering. The award citation recognizes: "pioneering discoveries in the field of exoplanets and the development of novel observational methods to detect and characterize exoplanets with the ultimate goal of discovering habitable worlds".

The announcement may be read at: http://blavatnikawards.org/honorees/profile/david-charbonneau/

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