#  Juliana Garcia-Mejia awarded 2023 Fireman Prize 

 





May 22, 2023

 

 

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 Harvard Astronomy Graduate Student Juliana Garcia-Mejia was awarded the 2023 [Fireman Fellowship](/fireman-fellowship-graduate) of the Astronomy department for her PhD thesis, "The Tierras Observatory: An Ultra-precise Time-series Photometer to Characterize Nearby Low-mass Stars and Their Terrestrial Exoplanets." Department chair Daniel Eisenstein presented the award to Garcia-Mejia at the annual departmental awards ceremony on Monday, May 22, 2023.

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 The gift of Rita S. Fireman to the Harvard College Observatory to establish the Edward L. Fireman Fellowship Fund "in memory of a man who loved his work as an experimental physicist. Then income from this fund is to be used both to conserve the principal and to provide support each year to a worthy graduate student. The funds are to be given at the discretion of the Chairman of the Department of Astronomy, preferably to a doctoral student engaged in experimental work in a field related to nuclear astrophysics. Each student receiving such supplementary funds is to be known as a Fireman Fellow. A biographical sketch on each Fireman Fellow will be provided to me and my children for as long as we so desire."



 

 

 

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