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Goldberg Prizes for Undergrad theses awarded

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Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Leo Goldberg Prizes for best undergraduate theses: Hanyue Wang accepts the Senior Award from Astronomy chair Daniel Eisenstein for her thesis "Galaxy Clustering and the Multpoint Correlation Function from the...

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Astronomy Professor Ashley Villar wins Packard Fellowship!

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Congratulations to Harvard Astronomy professor Ashley Villar, who has been awarded a 2024 Packard Fellowship! The David and Lucile Packard Foundation announced today the 2024 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering, who will each receive $875...

E.T., Phone Earth! Giant Radio Telescope Could Listen for Alien Signals

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In May, it was announced that the Square Kilometer Array ( SKA) — an ambitious network of thousands of radio antennas – would be based in both South Africa (in addition to neighboring countries) and Australia. Assuming funding is in place, construction on...

Astronomers detail oscillation of our giant neighbor

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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...

Karin Oberg awarded AASL's Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement

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Winner of the Barry Prize, 2024 The prize citation for Dr. Öberg ‘s Barry Prize reads: "Karin Öberg’s research has broken new ground in our knowledge of the stars, while reminding us of the wonder and beauty that inspire scientific inquiry. Her pioneering...

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

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Sophia Sánchez-Maes has been awarded the Theory-Experiment Cross Training Fellowship (TEX) from the John Templeton Foundation. Under the fellowship, Sophia is studying solar plasma physics, focusing on flares, from both X-ray instrumentation and MHD...

Avi Loeb

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Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University and a bestselling author (in lists of the New York Times,Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, L'Express and more). He received a PhD in...

Fireman Fellowship (Graduate)

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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...

Astrophysics Concentrators Lunch

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The Astrophysics Concentrators enjoyed lunch with our faculty on Friday, November 15th. The scientific exchanges were stimulating, and a bit of fun was shared by all. We hope to repeat the event again in the spring.

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

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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

Professor Ashley Villar awarded Aramont Fellowship

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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...