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Catherine Cesarsky

Harvard Astronomy Alum Catherine Cesarsky (PhD ’71) to receive Centennial Medal

May 17, 2023

The Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) will present the Centennial Medal to six distinguished alumni on May 24, 2023, culminating a year of celebration of the School’s 150th anniversary. The Centennial Medal, which recognizes those who have made fundamental and lasting contributions to knowledge, their disciplines, their colleagues, and society, is the highest honor that the Harvard Griffin GSAS bestows.

 

Catherine Cesarsky, PhD ’71, Astronomy

Catherine Cesarsky’s trailblazing achievements in astronomy are...

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Floor Broekgaarden

Floor Broekgaarden wins 2023 Keto Prize!!

May 8, 2023

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 Graduate Students in Theoretical Astrophysics, endowed with a generous donation by ITC Senior Member Eric Keto, is awarded each year for the best thesis in theoretical astrophysics by a student at the CfA, as selected by the Senior Members of the ITC. The restriction is...

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Karin Oberg

Karin Oberg receives 2023 Zuckerman Travel and Research STEM Fund at Harvard University.

May 1, 2023
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 catalyze new collaborations. The Fund supports the development of new research collaborations in STEM fields between faculty members and researchers in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences (FAS) or John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and their counterparts at research institutions in Israel