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Jennifer Bergner is awarded the Edward J. Fireman Fellowship for best graduate dissertation in her work as an astrochemist observer and experimentalist.

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Picture to the right is Jennifer with Rita Fireman, wife of Edward Fireman during the Honors Ceremony on May 29, 2019. Pictured below are members of the Fireman family who annually attend the awarding of this fellowship, along with Irwin Shapiro (left)...

Graduating senior, Alessandra Canta, winner of both a College Hoopes Prize and the Department's Senior Goldberg Prize.

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Alessandra switched her concentration to Astronomy only a year ago, just in time to win the most prestigious prizes for her senior thesis "“Unlocking the Key to Life: Observation and Formation of Nitriles in Protoplanetary Disks". Karin Öberg was her...

Charles Law (Harvard Ph.D. 2023) wins the IAU Division H PhD Thesis Prize for 2023!

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Charles Law (Harvard Ph.D. 2023) has been awarded the IAU Division H PhD Thesis Prize for 2023 for his thesis “Zooming in on the Chemistry of Star and Planet Formation." Division H President, Monica Rubio, and the Division H Steering Committee, “found Dr...

Ray Jayawardhana (Harvard Astronomy PhD 2000) named President of Caltech

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Congratulations to Ray Jayawardhana (Harvard Astronomy PhD 2000) who was named President of the California Institute of Technology, to start in summer 2026. In his current position he serves as Provost and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns...

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Department of Astronomy graduate students are required to teach for two semesters. First-year students do not usually teach. Teaching in the summer, while allowed, will not count toward the teaching requirement. Students are required to teach at least one...

One current and one former Harvard Astronomy student are featured in Forbes magazine list of 30 under 30 in science

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One current and one former Harvard Astronomy student are featured in Forbes magazine list of 30 under 30 in science. The first is current Harvard student, Henry Lin, (at the ripe age of 19!). The second is a former graduate student, Tony Pan, who work as...

Two new alumni, Amber Medina and Theron Carmichael, both 2021 recipients of an Edward Fireman Fellowship

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Amber will be heading to the University of Texas at Austin as an Early Career Fellow. This postdoctoral position is unique in that in addition to furthering her research on the radiation environments of low-mass stars, she will also be mentored on how to...

Congratulations to Ray Jayawardhana Named Dean of Arts and Sciences of Cornell

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Distinguished astrophysicist, renowned science writer and accomplished academic leader Ray Jayawardhana has been named the 22nd dean of Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences, Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced June 26. He earned a Ph.D. degree in...

Goldberg Prizes awarded to Astronomy concentrators Larom Segev and Carl (Cal) Guia at end of year Awards Ceremony

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The 2026 Goldberg Prizes awarded to Astronomy concentrators Larom Segev and Carl (Cal) Guia at end of year Awards Ceremony on May 26, 2026. Larom Segev won the senior Goldberg Prize for developing an automatic scheduler for the Rubin Telescope as it...

In Memoriam George B. Field

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Professor George B. Field, founding Director of the Center for Astrophysics, passed away on July 31st at the age of 94. George was a guiding figure for our institute and a friend, teacher, and mentor to many of our members. In 2014, George wrote an...

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Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics work on a broad variety of research areas ranging from the solar system to the edge of the observable Universe. You may read more details on a selected list of these research areas by clicking on the items on the...

Arielle Frommer (Harvard, 2025) receives a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award!

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Arielle Frommer (Harvard, 2025) received a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award at the 246th American Astronomical Society conference in Alaska! https://aas.org/posts/news/2025/06/congratulations-aas-246-chambliss-st… Her senior...