Hannah Jang-Condell, our alum who received her Ph.D. in 2004, has been given tenure at the University of Wyoming. She is an Associate Professor in their Physics and Astronomy Department. She studies planet formation theory, protoplanetary disk models, extrasolar planets, computational astrophysics, astrobiology. Congratulations, Hannah!
Press coverage of a new paper in Scientific American: A new study sheds light on how damaging black holes can be to the habitability of planets throughout the Milky Way and the universe.
Sarah Wellons, Andrew Vanderburg, Yuan-Sen Ting, Josh Suresh, Sukrit Ranjan, Philip Mocz, Meredith MacGregor, Kirit Karkare, Dawn Graninger (not shown Laura Schaefer)
In case you haven't already heard the news about Ryan Hickox - a former Harvard grad student - now tenured professor at Dartmouth! Ryan also is one of the first "house professors" in the house system that Dartmouth is expanding:
Astronomy Undergraduates in Ay100 Observational Astronomy course over spring break went on a trip. They traveled to the Desert Museum, University of Arizona mirror lab to see telescope mirrors being made, and to Whipple observatory to observe on the 1.2-m and 1.5-m telescope collecting data for their class project.
I am very sorry to report that our colleague Pat Thaddeus passed away this morning.
Pat was a highly influential teacher and astronomer for over 50 years, including the past 30 at the CfA. His interests were extremely broad, including pioneering work on the cosmic microwave background radiation, planetary atmospheres, and large-scale studies of star formation and galactic structure. He was one of the founders of the now flourishing field of astrochemistry. His elegant laboratory spectroscopy provided ironclad identifications of many new...
Congratulations to Astronomy graduate student, Xiawei Wang, was selected as one of the eight Harvard Horizons scholars. The symposium will take place on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 4:30PM in Sanders theater. Read more
